“that the primary function of social novels is social change, that social change lends fiction real-world utility, that its real-world utility makes fiction a craft, that this craft requires labor, and that this labor includes a responsibility to historical accuracy and progressive politics.”
It could be said that everything positive about the human condition has already been written about hundreds of times over, this includes all of the various Scriptures (etc) from all over the world.
And yet the world is becoming more and more insane every day.
In this time and place how many people even read life-positive or quality literature?
Their numbers are overwhelmed by those who dont.
The principal and most powerful causative factor was TV. But in the now-time of 2024 the most powerful driver of this anti-culture are the various forms of social media.
The anti-culture produced by these forms of media is completely indifferent to, and indeed hostile towards the well-being of every living-breathing-feeling inhabitant of this planet. Countless hundreds of millions of dreadfully sane human beings actively participate in this anti-culture, and the rest of us are affected by it too. Everyone transmits their emotional state in all directions. Everyone is instantaneously affected by all of it.
“The age of literary moralism” I need to know more.
Heard Jack E. Davis, Pulitzer Prize winning author recently call it the “era of oppression” in regards to books and life in general.
“that the primary function of social novels is social change, that social change lends fiction real-world utility, that its real-world utility makes fiction a craft, that this craft requires labor, and that this labor includes a responsibility to historical accuracy and progressive politics.”
https://lithub.com/anxiety-and-irresponsibility-what-is-to-be-done-about-literary-moralism/
Hard agree. Thanks for sharing!
It could be said that everything positive about the human condition has already been written about hundreds of times over, this includes all of the various Scriptures (etc) from all over the world.
And yet the world is becoming more and more insane every day.
In this time and place how many people even read life-positive or quality literature?
Their numbers are overwhelmed by those who dont.
The principal and most powerful causative factor was TV. But in the now-time of 2024 the most powerful driver of this anti-culture are the various forms of social media.
The anti-culture produced by these forms of media is completely indifferent to, and indeed hostile towards the well-being of every living-breathing-feeling inhabitant of this planet. Countless hundreds of millions of dreadfully sane human beings actively participate in this anti-culture, and the rest of us are affected by it too. Everyone transmits their emotional state in all directions. Everyone is instantaneously affected by all of it.