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Right now, the best media is hidden. Say, in general, it won’t get the views of a popular, heavily marketed song. If you create something, in your heart, it is likely your favorite thing you create will not be your most popular creation. It’s probable it won’t be understood. It might lie in pieces in your private records, never finished. I think many creators will pick their Favorite things as different than what is their most successful or popular.
If we think of the process of time, and all of these concealed layers, we, many decades later can only easily pull from the passage of time the most durable (i.e. those most spread or spoke of, or otherwise preserved by some oddity.) The couple of classics which live on which surface to your attention. Some might be just as a good as the best of the mostly forgotten. But even if we say “all of them are just as good as the best forgotten” it seems like the massive body of the forgotten is much stronger than what most have access to.
Sure, we have some critical thinkers, who will highlight a special relic, and bring it to to mainstream. But I am thinking here and exploring the thought, that the actual place of meaning lies buried in the past and forgotten, almost necessarily.
Some of my favorite songs, I can easily lose access to. I’ll probably never have a lengthy conversation about my favorite book. These are relics, of this era, how can I expect to retrieve them decades on?
It’s like a magnificent constantly buried palace which lies under the present, with crystal spires that pierce the loam in places by our collective effort of looking at them and for them.