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A lot is wrong with the internet, but much of it boils down to this one problem: We are all constantly talking to one another. Take that in every sense. Before online tools, we talked less frequently, and with fewer people. The average person had a handful of conversations a day, and the biggest group she spoke in front of was maybe a wedding reception or a company meeting, a few hundred people at most. Maybe her statement would be recorded, but there were few mechanisms for it to be amplified and spread around the world, far beyond its original context.
People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Ian Bogost
Inside, I ran into Jay Knowles, the Music Row songwriter. (It was a small town in a big city.) We talked about Nashville’s recent reputation as “Bachelorette City,” for which he offered a theory: although more than a quarter of Nashville was Black, the town was widely seen as “a white-coded city.” “I’m not saying this is a good thing,” he emphasized, but tourists viewed Nashville as a safe space, a city where groups of young white women could freely get drunk in public—unlike, say, Memphis, New Orleans, or Atlanta.
Country Music’s Culture Wars and the Remaking of Nashville | The New Yorker
Emily Nussbaum
That solo approach offered a much-needed counterweight to the scale and intensity of his recent filmmaking, Lanthimos said. “It’s more direct and unfiltered,” he added. “You don’t need that many people. You don’t need that much structure and money. You can do it whenever you want.”
Photography, with its quiet rituals and self-contained process, has offered some meditative calm amid the creative whirlwind of the past few years.
Yorgos Lanthimos Steps Back From the Movie Camera, and Picks Up Another One
nytimes.com
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