The bar keeps being lowered and the goal post keeps moving
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> I believe that we've sunken into an era where the bar on entertainment, humor, innovation, business, politics, and many other aspects of modern society has been lowered to reduce the distinction of talent over fluff...
Lowering the bar on access, I think is a good thing. That anyone with just a smart phone and a great idea could make a film is great. When I was a teenager I saved up to buy a Super-8 camera — but then the film, developing was expensive so 3 minutes became the typical length of my films. (Also, I couldn't afford a sound camera or equipment, so....)
Some of my favorite bands began with cheap guitars and amplifiers found in pawn shops in college towns. Now they can even distribute their music without having to dupe cassettes.
But if instead the author thinks we've lowered the bar on quality — well, that's pretty much on us as consumers then.
I'm pretty sure most will agree that what becomes most popular on social media, TV, and radio in this era, is far from what most people truly see as top talent.
Our favorite musicians and bands now more than ever rarely make it to public consciousness, often making it to public consciousness involves massive levels of funding, while even the most popular artists usually end up in terribly exploitive contracts (like TLC for example). Most of the modern musicians we know and love have no health insurance and, more often than not, aren't anywhere near wealthy from their work.
Taylor Swift & Beyoncé are also artists that rose to prominence prior to this new era of Social Media influence (as a footnote).
OP should enjoy it - instead of worrying 'bout what the irrelevant people think - while they grind their boring lives away , with mediocre results (the 'sheep' -especially if they don't have so many quills on their own bows as the talented OP)