Some interesting stuff around mcluhan and TV being low buy-in, theatre high buy in, books medium, so something like sunk-cost lets theatre be less attention grabbing. Pictures alone cant represent propositions, or make judgements, or logical complexity. Also high supply side costs (up-front or per-unit) tend to produce mass media, which has to aim at lcd to make profits. Also stuff around network effects has an anologous property kinda? Natural monopolies generally in some sense. Well natural monopolies of forums, (eg a facebook group) not their suppirting platforms (facebook). Agora are an example of this natural attention monopoly.
Tolstoy on music
Sam Kriss on A24 brain
- watching literalising and explicitly meaningful movies is like trying to eat the menu.