When Did “Good Enough” Become Good Enough?

A reflection on AI, apathy, and the quiet collapse of creative standards

I’ve been thinking a lot about this phrase I keep hearing lately:

“It’s good enough.”

Sometimes it comes with a shrug. Sometimes it’s a sigh of relief. Other times, it’s not said out loud at all. It just hangs there, unspoken, underneath the decision to move on, publish, post, approve.

And I get it. I really do.

There’s more work than there is time. There a…