HappySqurriel on 15 June 2009
Generally speaking, books, movies, music and videogames are all (roughly) as bad as they have ever been but an increasing awareness of the medium and tricks of our memories make us think that things used to be better ...
When you're a teenager derivitave crap seems so deep and insightful because you're not aware of the countless other people's work that has been "Ripped off" to create this amazing product. As you get older and you start to see that A was a copy of B which was a copy of C you start to think that C was an amazing product, until you become aware of products D through Z which C copied.
