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Author: Yuval Langer <yuval.langer@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 22:30:52 +0300
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# The Thriving Meme Mining Ghost Town of Hollywood
Melancholy Elephants by Spyder Robinson was wrong. Old ideas are
- known to everybody. The website [TV Tropes] catalogues and
- publishes all known elements used in writing of fiction. From novels
- to computer games, fan fiction and comics, all elements that had
- been used in the construction of fictional stories are methodically
- catalogued within its web pages.
+known to everybody. The website [TV Tropes] catalogues and publishes
+all known elements used in writing of fiction. From novels to computer
+games, fan fiction and comics, all elements that had been used in the
+construction of fictional stories are methodically catalogued within
+its web pages.
One would imagine that This does not deters authors from writing
- fiction. It does not deter film makers, computer game developers,
+fiction. It does not deter film makers, computer game developers,
+- Possible topics:
+ - TV Tropes
+ - Spyder Robinson's thesis in Melancholy Elephants:
+ - indefinite lifespan lead to
+ - indefinite copyright act lead to
+ - artists put out of job lead to
+ - a sense of purposeless
+ - Remakes, reboots, soft reboots, spoofs, allusions, parodies, (and deep fakes) with a weakening force
+ - a sucker is born every minute
+ - people forget
+ - [Mr. Plinkett]:
+
+ > We're mostly creatures of habit.
+
+ - The Bell Curve by Mr. Plinkett
+ - 3 minutes following this: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHiceVim9Wg&t=55m30s>
+ - thanks to [rosenjcb]'s [The Bell Curve clip] for reminding me where it starts
+
+ - In biology, [Diversity index].
+ - Diminishing returns on creative work, remix culture yields better returns.
+ - The maintenance of culture (or, the positive flipside of this rant)
+ - A dead language is that which no one speaks
+ - Culture is not only created, but experienced, remembered, reused, and taught.
+
+
+[Diverity index]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversity_index
+[Mr. Plinkett's Titanic Review]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHiceVim9Wg
+[rosenjcb]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRXWBzWj8Hkv-TPPuVFGcAQ
+[The Bell Curve clip]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMmZq0rTpA0
[TV Tropes]: <https://tvtropes.com/> "TV Tropes"
diff --git a/mkdocs.yml b/mkdocs.yml
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# https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#documentation-layout
pages:
-- Home: 'index.md'
-- Essays:
- - May 2018:
- - The Thriving Meme Mining Ghost Town of Hollywood: '2018/05/the-thriving-meme-mining-ghost-town-of-hollywood.md'
-- About: 'about.md'
+ - Home: 'index.md'
+ - Essays:
+ - May 2018:
+ - The Thriving Meme Mining Ghost Town of Hollywood: '2018/05/the-thriving-meme-mining-ghost-town-of-hollywood.md'
+ - About: 'about.md'
# Build directories
# https://www.mkdocs.org/user-guide/configuration/#build-directories
