More, More, More: How Do You Like it?
Quantity Culture and Optimization
Everything is rated online by numbers and not quality. I have to tell no one reading about the importance of clicks. A click is shallow, without real value or humanity, and causes us to obsess about numbers while disregarding any other measure of worth.
Are we a quantity over quality society? I think so, and right now I am leaning toward believing this is inevitable. By the end of this story, that opinion might change. Anyway, I am very curious to know what you think.
First, it is logical to assume that capitalism is the root of the “more is better” state of mind. Mass production feeds the unending habit to manufacture more at a cheaper cost. In fact, we might be able to conceive of mass production as part of our collective consciousness in addition to its role as the engine of modern economies.
I mean that more is just part of our thought process. We don’t notice it very often or at all. We just live with more as a kind of infection that is never treated.