I feel like I’m pretty much only willing to try something if someone I know and respect recommends it to me. I’m always super unwilling to just randomly pick up a book or a movie or whatever on my own… I feel like ever since being vaguely into Marvel slop, I’m just so much more aware of how finite my time is and I have to know I’m going into something worth seeing and engaging with before I’ll commit to even trying something. Does anyone else feel this way more? Is this just the process of me calcifying as I get older, or is it to do with how society is?
I can’t even remember the last time I watched or listened to a TV show or music of my own accord, let alone kept up with a show/band. In my case I think it’s more due to anhedonia than a cynical view of popular media though.