Hm, I don’t see anything in there at this moment; and I’m not confident enough to say that I know everything in the article but...
Is there any research on how entertainment *types affects happiness levels? I don’t mean genres necessarily, but let’s say, low cognitive load works like Bond movies, summer action flicks and slapstick comedies versus ‘artsy’ high cognitive load works like Schindler’s list, Shakespeare plays and hard scifi.
So what I have is two apparently conflicting pieces of information. I know that people like to put off the latter for the former. Suggesting that people feel as if the EV from the artsy works is lower (because of prep time needed to get into the right emotional state, thinking required during the work, a more abstract impression of its qualities from reviews rather than colleagues).
You’re also supposed to enjoy artsy stuff more, and it happens to pattern match to some of the happiness advice here: The salient feature of artsy works is that it’s easy to reflect on them, they tend to be novel, “sad” works brings your “haves” into sharp relief, the preparation and delay of the experience...
Actually, could it be that artsy works are viewed as artsy because of the memeplex we set up around them rather than any inherent, mysterious quality factor surrounding them? Hm. If this were true, it would mean that if we treated pop culture like high culture, we’d get the same amount of high utility from more sources.
Of course, I could be overthinking this; it’s mere akrasia favoring pop culture, high culture is high culture simply because it’s ‘objectively the best’ and all the pattern matching I did earlier is proof of quality.
Hm, I don’t see anything in there at this moment; and I’m not confident enough to say that I know everything in the article but...
Is there any research on how entertainment *types affects happiness levels? I don’t mean genres necessarily, but let’s say, low cognitive load works like Bond movies, summer action flicks and slapstick comedies versus ‘artsy’ high cognitive load works like Schindler’s list, Shakespeare plays and hard scifi.
So what I have is two apparently conflicting pieces of information. I know that people like to put off the latter for the former. Suggesting that people feel as if the EV from the artsy works is lower (because of prep time needed to get into the right emotional state, thinking required during the work, a more abstract impression of its qualities from reviews rather than colleagues).
You’re also supposed to enjoy artsy stuff more, and it happens to pattern match to some of the happiness advice here: The salient feature of artsy works is that it’s easy to reflect on them, they tend to be novel, “sad” works brings your “haves” into sharp relief, the preparation and delay of the experience...
Actually, could it be that artsy works are viewed as artsy because of the memeplex we set up around them rather than any inherent, mysterious quality factor surrounding them? Hm. If this were true, it would mean that if we treated pop culture like high culture, we’d get the same amount of high utility from more sources.
Of course, I could be overthinking this; it’s mere akrasia favoring pop culture, high culture is high culture simply because it’s ‘objectively the best’ and all the pattern matching I did earlier is proof of quality.