What do capitalism and a movie culture have in common?
If the success of Seinfeld has told us anything, the secret of success in art and media lies in the talent of mimicry. To mimic life and use slight exaggeration to occurrences in people's everyday lives is to be successful in the realm of artistry.
The oddity that this seemingly obvious observation introduces is the backlash. Not only does art imitate life, but eventually, life begins to imitate art. It might not seem so outlandish, but it does get annoying.
The problem that lies here is the addition of exaggeration that makes art, art. It causes life to imitate an exaggerated form of itself. Then art again imitates the new exaggerated life by, you guessed it, exaggerating further. It is a cycle.
This is where the analogy to capitalism comes in. There is an upward spiral for capitalism to work. A spiral of inflation, there always needs to be more money and more inflation for capitalism to keep working.
At what point does the breaking point come in for both of these phenomena?
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