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~impulse

I think I get what you're saying. We keep trying to make things look pretty, look presentable, completely ignoring the internal content that really matters.

I can think of plenty of examples: Celebrities that look pretty but are really not good people underneath, video games with intensely realistic graphics but terrible gameplay, those godawful cherries that Sonic gives you with their milkshakes that are just old rotten cherries loaded with sugar and food coloring... it goes on.

I can get trying to make things look presentable, maybe with a small bit of formatting here and there, but it ends up completely undermining the content inside that we're really there for.

Sorry for going on a bit of a rant, that last point you made just kinda stuck out to me. I agree with you.

Also to make sure, what do you mean by "See also: for the love of monetize."?

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~inquiry wrote (thread):

Great eye candy examples!

As for "See also: for the love of monetize", our exchange had me remembering the early days of gold-rushery to "monetize" web pages, and thought it fun to substitute it for the word 'money' in "for the love of money" (possibly a Bible phrase...?). The "See also:" part was something I enjoyed leveraging more in the past in forum posts. The time felt right for a reappearance.

As for what it means, to me it's how a shift in focus from a thing-in-itself to its alleged value seems a departure from the joy of sensory here-now to some purely conceptual world/space. For when and/or where is "value"? How does thinking about an object's value hold a candle to experiencing the object? What can be done with so-called "value" but think about it? And isn't that focus shift a sort of first step down Greed Lane?

(I feel I could have said that better, but things happening on the home front are undermining writing focus....)