EVEN literary critics are mere consumers, in that they seldom question the context of a product. Like buying a music cd back in the day and never wondering about the company that made it, who produced it, or how it was made. Or the system or systems within which those persons and entities existed. The economic and technological superstructure.
The same today with streaming. YOUR job is simply to consume the content.
Who owns the content? Who allows it? Who profits?
We're not supposed to glance at context.
To be fair, today a lot of us glance at context. You can't help it. The "stars" of our current era are the owners themselves. Personalities like Elon Musk. The only way he can keep the investment bubbles that are his companies inflated is by selling himself as engineering genius. People buy that. Same way so many buy the notion of our current President as political genius. Another confidence-based inflated bubble.
It's all salesmanship.
