On the surface, this feels productive. You are "optimizing" your leisure. You are building encyclopedic knowledge of The Office or Game of Thrones. You are winning arguments about whether Die Hard is a Christmas movie (it is).
But we need to be honest about the addiction. We need to recognize when we are using the Index to avoid the discomfort of a real emotional connection with a piece of art. index of xxx
In its place, we have something I call . On the surface, this feels productive
Index Entertainment asks nothing. It is a frictionless surface. You slide over it, collect the data points, and move on. You finish a "20 Things You Missed in the Barbie Movie" video feeling informed, but you don't feel moved . You are winning arguments about whether Die Hard
We have never had more access to high art. The Criterion Channel exists. A24 is producing avant-garde horror. Classical music is on Spotify. And yet, the most consumed "popular media" is not the media itself—it is the metadata about the media .