Big ideas, community thinking.
It’s time to stop thinking so far away.
Maybe I’m showing my age, or maybe I’m just re-thinking some of my priorities on what matters and where energy should be spent.
Whilst out on a regular Sunday walk with a friend, putting the world to rights, I came to the conclusion that too many people are caught up in dealing with (or getting attention from) things at a global level.
The curse of the internet, social media and rolling news is that it constantly clamours for more content, a bigger audience and a wider net to be cast.
500 hours of content.
500 hours of content are uploaded to YouTube every minute. (30,000 hours, per hour). But a global content firehose approach doesn’t tackle things at a local, community level.
It’s reaching a critical point where perhaps the sake of creating content is overriding the need for the content to have a true purpose – boiled down to some narrative that can help a community. Even Disney seem to been rushing through ‘content’ over a true narrative.
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