Ultimately, the goal is just to keep us listening, locked into a constant flow of background jams from morning until bedtime. And the best way to do that is to feed us music we already know we like, or that we at least don’t actively object to.
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DJ X isn’t another person. He is more like a homunculus, a shadow puppet locking us into a musical rut of our own perverse creation. He knows us because he is us, and this makes him irresistible. Listening is easy; true discovery is nonnegotiably hard.
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Discovery is at least half the fun in reading and listening and watching. I already spend my time during my day job doing what other people tell me to do. I am not going to just listen to some algorithm or some company's marketing department on what to read and listen and watch.
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