Too Much Internet
I&#x27;m sort of more interested in the effect this has mentally on people. Not from a FOMO point of view but from a &quot;what is my place in the world&quot; point of view.<p>If you&#x27;re an artist or a musician or a developer or, well anything really, what does it mean to be able to go online and are hundreds, thousands, millions of people who are far better at a thing than you are?<p>I&#x27;m 50 and sufficiently old &#x2F; mature to be able to cope with this but even so, when I do a search for &quot;linocut&quot; (one of my hobbies) and see 82,000 results (just on Etsy) - and they&#x27;re all really good and incredibly cheap... this dents something in me.<p>As I say, I&#x27;m realistic enough to know I&#x27;m not the world&#x27;s best artist and I&#x27;m not trying to make a living out of it - it&#x27;s also great, and useful, to see other people&#x27;s work...but it&#x27;s also somehow galling as well, in a way that&#x27;s quite hard to define.<p>It&#x27;s a bit like Douglas Adams&#x27; infinity - it isn&#x27;t infinity but it feels sufficiently big to make one teeter a bit and wonder at one&#x27;s place in the universe...