Podcast culture is a hot topic now thanks to the election.
This is interesting to me. I basically swore off all podcasts in mid 2023, around when I started making music seriously again, because I realized that all it was doing was feeding other people’s personal brands & perspectives into my brain without any time to form my own perspective on anything. Even the progressive podcasters I’d agree with become suffocating after a while. Plus ads.
It became more freeing to take space and reflecting on things silently or with art as a vessel for reflection.
To be clear: I don’t say this as advice or with condescension to those who like podcasts. And not all podcasts are bad. I still listen to certain ones from time to time.
But I do think it’s right that mainstream podcast culture is influencing more than we realized, and I wonder even if it’s a negative for critical thinking & personal growth.
