Thumbnails, repetition, sameness

But what is the purpose of so many thumbnails floating in space on a screen? Illusions of plenty, of abundance, of multitude. Distinctions and differences blur and are reduced to a visual ocean of sameness: the same rectangles, the same “content,” the same covers and data and metadata. It is sameness and sameness and sameness, when the essence of art and literature is the opposite of sameness, copies, and mindless repetition.