katy-l-wood:

Time to spit out some thoughts on the whole “media doesn’t have a shelf life anymore and it is messing with our perception of the passage of time” debate.

You ever notice how little media based around contemporary stories actually…feels contemporary? Like. I can count on one hand the number of contemporary media stories–and this is including books, movies, shows, everything–that actually feels contemporary. The way people use phones, the way people access the news, the way people FEEL about the news, the way people use their time, all of that sort of stuff just…isn’t usually there?

I mean, yeah, most media is always going to be a bit rose-tinted and over simplified but it feels like contemporary characters just don’t really exist in 95% of media. Which is weird. They all exist in this weird world one step to the left where smart phones are still just phones, the news still plays in random store windows, no one is working three jobs without it being a huge plot point, etc. It’s weird.