Thread:Stray Bird/@comment-28818979-20161217150031/@comment-28209103-20170623194525

Having 'sound' bussiness practice is fine and all but it's also fine to lament that there's something that is loss in process. I'll be hypocrite if I criticize monopolizing, patenting, privatization or whatever practice, or any questionable profit seeking scheme where i'm not exactly clean in it, however I think it's fine for me to acknowledge that there's something valuable we lost in the process; in short facing reality of our decision. In the end tho such admission matters little because as the 'benefited' side, I can't or don't want to really stop it,, if I were to draw parallel it's like a smoker who admit that smoking are bad for health yet still doing it anyway.. or average people who realized that using gasoline based energy might be bad for us in the long run but stick to it anyway for convenience or whatever reason. I can rant on and on about the problem of 'rationality' concept, the limit of it, the problem with individuality, the bias of individual, etc but that'll be unimportant and way too long..

There's a lot of example I could give but I believe the inability to have balanced point of view is among the worst of it. it's always either black or white for most people, from the day I can think for myself till this date I still failed to understand why people seems to see everything as "with us" or "against us" rather than more relaxing position that are actually constructive. especially in social topic. Anyone who studied social "science" even for a bit for real should've realized that it's nothing "scientific" at all and it's such a messy study field that cannot be studied in pure positivist approach nor it can be studied in parts because one thing are tied the others (e.g Economic aspect of society are tied to social system, value system, political system, even art, education and culture.) The implication are clear, by segmenting one aspect with other and studying it independently we'll never reach anywhere for it's just a part of giant behemoth called humanity (as in everything that made us human and made by us human)

BTW another worst part to that is Music.. the celebrity centric, quantity over quality approach, with inherently lack of respect for the arts definitely made me hate music Industry. The good thing is that the not-so-mainstream one with quality are still there altho they'll lose in exposure and probably won't profit that much. What Hitsuji said hit home so close when I think bout how many talented musician that never made it big.. the opportunity cost are so huge that it's painful for select few of people who actually cares. They don't really need to make it big however with the current system media exposure matters more than the quality of their music, not only they don't have that ads force backing them, they actually have those ads swallowing them. Funny they didn't realize this kind of practice are exactly part of the reason they lose tons of sales.. but ofc they had to blame entirely on the piracy.. yeah right.

We can keep the list going on and on and on even for this subject of harmful effect of privatization coupled with excessive profit seeking.. Movie, book, derivative market, speculation, etc.. however it is indeed extremely lucrative for those on the beneficial side. All I can say is that we should totally teach this necessary skill to everyone and let the hopefully more aware future human handle stuff..