I’ve grown to hate the ever-present argument that the more choices you have, the worse off you are.
You see this stupid canard not just with music, but with just talking about web info in general.
I want to ask this guy if, when walking into a library, he’d curse the fact that there are all of those
books in there - that maybe there should only be a select number of certain kinds of books?
Only an idiot would be put off by the British Library or the Library of Congress because
they couldn’t possibly be able to read everything there. This guy even puts the cart before the horse and
says that it creates mental health issues(!). The “paradox of choice” is not that we should have less choice,
but, rather, that we should be able to mentally deal with an evolving, complex society in both a
rational and analytical way, but instead it’s easier for too many people to take the lazy way
to pseudo-enlightenment, throw up their hands and put the blame on “the system.”
That’s a mental health issue.
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