Originally I first thought about this when referring it to games that have been made.
The idea is that if someone releases a bunch of bad quality games, it will flood the media, and reduce the amount of play that is done with the very best quality games. Flooding the media also applies to things like knowledge, where too many bad books get published and the best books get read less as a result.
Who gets to decide what is good or bad?
We all have that opportunity.
Well, then since there are a variety of tastes likes and intellects how can there be a flooding? Should only one taste, like and intellect be catered to?
The higher must surpass the lower.
My friend do you really want that? Ignorance and boredom for so many? Entertainment is not just for fun.
In a good world, things wouldn’t exist at expense. It’s like the anti thesis of the earth. Free energy.
I think that the highest quality things would counteract the natural poverty of animal existences.
Also a lot of things are not at this time needed or relative.
I know this one, it’s the publishing companies. As they are the ones that put the money forward and take a risk that the book will not sell well.
(edit: At least in the specific example of books and other such things.)
Sometimes I think this way. It’s a bit like when a friend does something that hurts you. Say, they reveal something about you to someone they should not have and on some level, even though it was never verbalized, you feel like they should have known better. Now one can take it as surface: he made a mistake, he wasn’t thinking. Or you can be a post-Freudian and say, sure, that very likely is how he experienced it. He did not rub his hands and think, consciously, how can I hurt Moreno? , buuuuuuuuuuuuuut…
he had a bad intent that he was not aware of.
Both ways of looking at it can be helpful to get facets of the situation and some situations will tend towards one end more than the other.
So with ‘them’…on one level they make money off aiming low, so they aim low and flood.
But I think yes, on another level, their is malicious intent, even if many or most are not aware of it.
A good world educates. Education cannot be about just positive or limited to one kind of intellect or taste. There must be diversity of good, bad, intelligence and tastes. The bad is just as important as the good.
I went through a book store this morning to buy a present for my mother.
When I had a look at the table with recently published fiction, I was quite surprised that about 80% of the books were written by women. Many more or less humourous easy-to-read-novels with titles like: “The man who’s worth it”, or: “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”, or: “Only a dead man is a good man” !!! The rest mainly with not so offensive titles, but always with female main-characters, always strongly mastering their lifes, whereas the involved men had to adduce evidence until the last page that they are good enough to deserve that woman. Books like this you find more and more. I live in Central Europe, but I think it is not so much different in the USA.
Do you think that is all a question of supply and demand to reach a variety of tastes? I think this is a direction of tastes, to serve various purposes.
And this is only one medium. I don’t know anything about computer-games.
Of course you still have the chance to read what you want, because you know that there is better literature.
I think of the children. Because THEY are flooded with this nonsense. Classic literature is only slightly touched at schools, instead they hold their english-lessons at McDonalds to study the (english written) menu.
Simultaniously the language changes. They make up new words, putting a female ending on everything. Speaking to a group of mixed e.g. pupils, one HAS to adress both genders, like “dear pupils and pupil-esses” That sounds weard, but it is absolutely political incorrect not to do so. Is that not a way to direct tastes, likes and intellects? And how ridiculous! The intention to equalize leads to it’s opposite: Pointing at the differences by using words to separate.
I have a son. I don’t want him to grow up to an insecure dummie who is afraid of women.
Oh, if we only had a good world… 
Maybe I should mention that the above post is not a man’s view. My username might irritate.
I would really like to know how the women around here see that tendency. Am I exaggerating?
And if not: Why do so many men join in?
As far as the media, everything is a substitute for something else! Fatedness is ruined. Electronic man finishes things before they even start, no mystery, no surprises. Virtual sensibility sends to kingdom all, and lets naught die an inborn death. No wonder, no Judas’ kiss, no dignity, no antagonism, no guile, or repose . . . whatever what, eliminate negative principle, and end up with rapport, conformism, and totally debunked, and sent to Kingdom!
We (that nasty word), turn all vagaries, shadows, and Elysian Fields into message . . . we attain a paragon of rightdown feat. Ask yourself this question young son: are you’ens a viable modicum that is bound to itself only? Moirai is the allegorical exchange between us and the world, which thinks us, and which we think, this telescopy between things, and complicity! But yet, the other is destroyed, that which is born and dies under the same sign. No one knows, we are an inexchangable thingness, universally, save for, not virtually! Definitive uncertainty is all you new-borns know, Event-thought recovery only-is your price tag! Uncertainty is a principle: and, ‘I’m too scared to live on the line of death in life, or life in death!’
Thought plays a catastrophic role, provocation, in a world cleansing itself from life itself. Nothing is negative! But, at the same time, it (the world) must recapture the nature of good and evil!
Do you mean me with ‘young son’?..I’m a bit confused…Would you mind to explain this to a ‘young daughter’?
This site is an absolute joke. Y’all don’t let anyone flex their muscle!
Mithus, it is the same here. Has been for a while. Our son is almost 30. We did not allow schools to influence him in such ways. You are his true compass. You have the responsibility to teach him these things even when it goes against the norm… oh yea, , from painful experience you might want to teach him diplomacy too. We learned that one the hard way 
Trends and following are deeply a part of human nature for most. Its easy. Hunter gatherers that are pack/herd creatures take easy paths to reach their goal. You just have to find your own. It is a good world, its just not an easy one.
Mithus, I think you make an excellent point (inadvertently, perhaps) for the complete privatization of education. Some parents might want their children to read books you consider inappropriate, or offensive, or insufficiently edifying. And I don’t think you’d claim the right to tell those parents that they’re not entitled to their viewpoint, or that they don’t have the right to have their children read such books. Just as they shouldn’t be able to tell you how to raise your children, shouldn’t be able to tell your children what books are appropriate or inappropriate, intellectually stimulating or not, etc.
Whether I agree with your viewpoint regarding particular books or video games or movies or what have you is, or should be, unimportant in the long run. That I happen to agree with you regarding the collapse of appreciation for “classic” literature in favor of what I consider to be pretty much shit on paper is, in the end, beside the point. The point is that neither you or I do (should) get to dictate to the other, or to anyone, what is acceptable.
No, that was not my point.
My point is that the state is interfering in every single aspect of private life. In that case I wrote about (books) this happens by selecting literature to drive peoples thoughts in a special direction. Without taking any responsibility for the next generation. If you had read my post under the aspect ‘freedom’, you wouldn’t have come to your conclusion.
Your username ‘jagermeister’ reminds me of another example.( I suppose you know that this is a liquor - originally ‘Jägermeister’, but your keyboard might not have the ‘ä’)
There is a big beer-label, starting with a ‘V’. In all the adverts of that brewery (like big posters sticking everywhere in the streets) in every word which starts with a ‘F’ the first letter is replaced by a ‘V’ ( like Vriends, Vamily, Vuture…) just to get the attention of people passing by.
Children who are just learning how to write mainly copy every word they see. It’s almost impossible to overlook these adverts - but it doesn’t seem to be a problem. Keep the children stupid, they will make better slaves.
Neither me nor you, alright. But WHO is it who takes the right to dictate what’s acceptable? It happens all the time.
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Sorry, I didn’t mean to offend you, just tried to hide my lack of understanding behind a joke. Obviously it didn’t work. Feel free to flex every muscle that needs it.