I suppose I am well into this unusual phase of wait and see. I’ve been trying to adjust to the new distance-based reality, and I love a large portion of that reality. I love working from home. I’ve shrugged openly (and far too callously and casually) at the loss of eating out and other such freedoms that deeply impact my wallet. What has impacted me a lot deeper is the coming drought of creative material. Not mine. I have thoughts and ideas stored up from years of not writing stuff down. No, I am talking about actual production. We may all be fine in the short term, realizing that we can binge and catch up on a ton of stuff, but nobody seems to be talking about the fact that no new television is being made. No new books are being published. I’ve been the beneficiary of this on one hand due to extended deadlines, but on the other side of this that means that there is not a lot (or any) new material that is going to be coming out after a few more months of this isolation.
This will have the impact of changing the type of material that is released. Muselk and his ilk will be the ones leading the way in content. At the same time a great deal of what they do is based on video games, which too will be drying up since there is little opportunity to develop beta software safely in this current environment. Sure, there are groups set up to do just that, and they will thrive, but most are not. Games like The last of Us 2 and other games set to release on the new Ps5 and Xbox X platforms are realizing that they might not make the deadline.
There is a trickle down impact to all of this. We are not getting new content, which means rehashing old content for many, but also could mean that people might get out there and start creating for themselves.
What will you do?
Some Thoughts:
- This pandemic has really made me rethink my lifestyle and and what it is I ought to be doing with my time. One can only play so many games and watch so many shows… At some point it is on you to begin creating these things you consume.