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Kyle Baxter recently wrote an interesting article about how the accessibility to the information overload, has ultimately devalued & decreased our appreciation of some great things. Whilst I agree with him on most levels, I’d argue that this very accessibility to every bit of information you desire, has cultivated a much more frenetic obsession than in years gone by.

Let’s take music (as Kyle used this as his example as well)… A quick look at your average Radiohead fan would result in you probably labeling that person as a fanatic due to the fact that the band aren’t overly mainstream and their un-poppy sound means that their music is hard to digest if it’s not really your kind of thing. That same person would probably also own most (if not all) of Radioheads albums and would be able to recite every known fact about those albums (as well as the band in general).

And in my opinion, that’s where you’re going to find this obsession: not with the teeny-boppers that follow one pop trend to the next. Instead you’re going to find it in the niches, where there are still true fans of great music (or whatever else).

So take away the accessibility to the information overload that the internet has provided and I doubt whether you’d see the same passion and obsession in those niches. Sure – as Kyle argues – there might be a bigger drive to find that information (which is probably an obsession in its own right), but the obsession is there irrespective.