I can’t really explain it but the lack of color in contemporary movies, the need for realism, ai being pushed as art and people accepting it as art, mainstream movies/stories becoming very on the nose and surface level, and the rise of fascism, are all related - ThreadSky

amalasrosa.bsky.social • 9 days ago

I can’t really explain it but the lack of color in contemporary movies, the need for realism, ai being pushed as art and people accepting it as art, mainstream movies/stories becoming very on the nose and surface level, and the rise of fascism, are all related

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matthewrobinsart.bsky.social•9 days ago

Even just going into a clothes store now and it's all black, beige and grey clothing was a crazy obvious one too.

islandofreil.bsky.social•9 days ago

Also, motor vehicles in the US. All neutral colors.

randomdeinonychus.bsky.social•9 days ago

I am happy to say that when my wife and I decided to get a new car, we ended up buying one that's a shade of neon green that's almost yellow. So, thankfully, there is some hope out there yet.

sarkastiklover.bsky.social•9 days ago

I blame it on Steve Jobs and the aesthetic he pushed through Apple.

And I'm only somewhat joking, tbh. A lot of these can be traced back to it and the cult of personality he cultivated...

notadecepticon.bsky.social•9 days ago

Have a follow, looking forward to the explanation

oldehippi.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yup - purging humanity of life, science and creativity.

We're becoming BLAND. We're becoming HELL.

gisselescudero.bsky.social•9 days ago

The system doesn't care about people feeling happy and fulfilled, no. It needs us to be miserable, to work and consume. Very 1984, if you ask me.

jaegerx7.bsky.social•9 days ago

There are quite a few articles out there about how the deterioration of art and inflicting a sort of “same-y-ness” and “acceptability” is an intrinsic and necessary step in the rise of fascism. This one explains some of that: https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/architectural-styles/a2941-the-rejection-of-modern-art-as-a-form-of-fascism/

jaegerx7.bsky.social•9 days ago

This excerpt is sort of what I’m driving at. The lack of color, the ai art “sensibility” where it all looks the same, the devaluing of art in general, its peak starting stages of fascism.

amalasrosa.bsky.social•9 days ago

Ohh yes! Thank you for linking this!
I read other similar explanations and yes it all makes so much sense and the things we see in our mainstream media in the last years are really telling

amalasrosa.bsky.social•9 days ago

I prob could
But not at midnight after a 4 hour train ride

colbosch.bsky.social•9 days ago

Get some rest, but also, you're not wrong at all.

amalasrosa.bsky.social•9 days ago

Thanks!

1tsl.bsky.social•9 days ago

I don't agree all the way, but I was reminded of this richard brody piece I read on A Quiet Place, jumped the NYer paywall here https://web.archive.org/web/20250303210726/https://www.newyorker.com/culture/richard-brody/the-silently-regressive-politics-of-a-quiet-place

jostewart.bsky.social•9 days ago

Yes, this, and I think destructive trends in non-fiction/news media are related, as well—that same force lends itself to both-sidesing and an abdication of moral and intellectual responsibility that hides behind the weakest, flattest, grayest devotion to the idea of "objectivity."

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