Maybe you are too old and too developed as an adult to be entertained by children's stories that were written by people who are now your moral and intellectual lessers. This goes for comics, books, games. Your love for tbe material can hold you over for a while, but for how long, in the face of however much mediocrity?
I usually hate this line of thought ("youre an adult, stop watching kids cartoons") but the raw fact is that if you are approaching or past your mid twenties and you have an above average IQ you are competitive with the people make capeslop as part of a 9-to-5 job working on a product that targets a young audience.
When you do your 9-to-5 job, are you exactly straining your brain to its fullest extent to provide the absolute highest quality work you can? Probably not. Neither are the people making capeslop, be it a comic or a game or a film.
Add to that the fact that they could very well be less intelligent than you by real metrics, in fact they might even be members of a race that does not share the full extent of your heriditary talent for abstraction. Many may be younger than you and if you are a real human person in this world they are almost certainly less wise and experienced than you are, because many if not most of them are nepo children who never had any difficulties to overcome that weren't made up on Tumblr.
This is part of the reason I LOVE (LOVE LOVE LOVE) the stories and media that I do love. Things made by wise men who are dead now, who have wisdom that I don't have, who can only teach me through what they've recorded. By contrast, there is nothing you'll absorb from a modern Batman series that you wouldnt pick up from bots and 14 year old redditors in /r/politics.
Maybe you are too old and too developed as an adult to be entertained by children's stories that were written by people who are now your moral and intellectual lessers. This goes for comics, books, games. Your love for tbe material can hold you over for a while, but for how long, in the face of however much mediocrity?
I usually hate this line of thought ("youre an adult, stop watching kids cartoons") but the raw fact is that if you are approaching or past your mid twenties and you have an above average IQ you are competitive with the people make capeslop as part of a 9-to-5 job working on a product that targets a young audience.
When you do your 9-to-5 job, are you exactly straining your brain to its fullest extent to provide the absolute highest quality work you can? Probably not. Neither are the people making capeslop, be it a comic or a game or a film.
Add to that the fact that they could very well be less intelligent than you by real metrics, in fact they might even be members of a race that does not share your heriditary talent for abstraction. Many may be younger than you and if you are a real human person in this world they are almost certainly less wise and experienced than you are, because many if not most of them are nepo children who never had any difficulties to overcome that weren't made up on Tumblr.
This is part of the reason I LOVE (LOVE LOVE LOVE) the stories and media that I do love. Things made by wise men who are dead now, who have wisdom that I don't have, who can only teach me through what they've recorded. By contrast, there is nothing you'll absorb from a modern Batman series that you wouldnt pick up from bots and 14 year old redditors in /r/politics.
Maybe you are too old and too developed as an adult to be entertained by children's stories that were written by people who are now your moral and intellectual lessers.
I usually hate this line of thought ("youre an adult, stop watching kids cartoons") but the raw fact is that if you are approaching or past your mid twenties and you have an above average IQ you are competitive with the people who are making capeslop as part of a 9-to-5 job making a product that targets a young audience.
When you do your 9-to-5 job, are you exactly straining your brain to its fullest extent to provide the absolute highest quality work you can? Probably not. Neither are the people making capeslop, be it a comic or a game or a film.
Add to that the fact that they could very well be less intelligent than you by real metrics, in fact they might even be members of a race that does not share your heriditary talent for abstraction. Many may be younger than you and if you are a real human person in this world they are almost certainly less wise and experienced than you are, because many if not most of them are nepo children who never had any difficulties to overcome that weren't made up on Tumblr.
This is part of the reason I LOVE (LOVE LOVE LOVE) the stories and media that I do love. Things made by wise men who are dead now, who have wisdom that I don't have, who can only teach me through what they've recorded. By contrast, there is nothing you'll absorb from a modern Batman series that you wouldnt pick up from bots and 14 year old redditors in /r/politics.