vlad321 said:
HappySqurriel said:
For the most part I agree that sales are the same as being high quality, but that the areas that high selling products demonstrate their quality may not be what people want to be rewarded ...
McDonalds fails to be high quality when you judge it against the standard of pretentious restaurants, but how many restaurants can deliver comparable quality and consistency of food at a similar price to McDonalds while handling the volume of customers the typical McDonalds can?
When you stop looking down at the world for choosing something you believe is low quality, and start looking for the high quality elements in success, you will start to see people's choices in a different light. If you were so motivated, you could potentially use this knowlege to improve products you believe are more worthy of success.
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So you are saying we need more glittery vampires and downright braindead romances in our books/movies?
When it comes to entertainment it's very simple to make something successful, and as I already poitned out you just need to appeal to the lowest common denominator in some way. However that appeal to the lcd is what reduces the quality itself, hence what you are saying just simply can't happen.
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Let's see...there's Anne Rice, the Buffy and Angel romance, True Blood...Twilight is hardly an original concept and the demand for it does indicate that more is needed. Which is why there's now Being Human, The Vampire Diaries...the audience is out there. Just because you don't have any need for it doesn't mean that the audience doesn't exist. Boiling it all down to "appealing to the lcd" is just a pretentious way of trying to dehumanize people based on their interests.
