How can literature retain a large audience in the age of advanced technology, limitless distraction...

Great questions.
Great response.

I'll post again if and when I think about it more.

>Still, the apocalypse will not be kind to electronic devices

You never know, if you get a gas generator you have yourself an entire library you can fit in your pocket. Useful shit

the 2D kind

The lack of interest doesn't stem from the medium itself though (Paperback or kindle See ). The masses have never and will never be interested in literature. I don't think pandering to them is the best option.

Why do artforms die? Is it due to a lack of interest, or a tarnishing of the form?

Is there a video of>her getting fucked on camera?

>Why do artforms die?

Technology. The Epic Poem was king in pre-literate societies because it limited people to memorizing works which meant a very limited catalogue of stories you could accurately remember.
Having one or two big works meticulously engineered with all its details and rhymes was justified in such a situation.

The internet is killing books because people are overloaded with different perspectives, ideas and outlets to write even if most of it isn't very good. It makes it hard for the average person to commit themselves to one persons mind when they feel fatigued by a constant onslaught of tiny pricks (pun intended).

This....

Very interesting questions. I remember reading an interview of Javier Marías where they asked him if poetry was dead in this century and he said "Probably. But it will continue in the form of songs, in a way." Also a lot of movies are based on books, as long as there is books to adapt, books will not be forgotten by the media..

It's been happening across the board. Absolute music? Dead. Most western-art music genres are non-existent outside of the euro academia. Not sure, but it was probably Shostakovich who last wrote an good symphony or a string quartet. US produces Glass or Adams with their brainlet compositions and Europe is still retrenched to dusty studies trying to become the next Beethoven. Fuck, we had Eroica in 1801 and Rite of Spring by 1913, so we're already years behind schedule for some redefining masterpiece. And how about literature or philosophy? I thought Zizek polluting masses with BigThink videos was bad, but then we got Petercon. Like, fuck anons... is this the end?

>shemale
I got cheated again
fuck u OP

>People are associating reading with interpersonal obligation.

I agree. It's overwhelming. It does feel like a chore, and especially when so much of what is available to read online is simply a person blogposting at length for attention. The repulsion felt towards such articles etc tends to be transferred for me to novels at times.

>is this the end?

Only in your prayers

Maybe art should focus on death and god again?
Those are things no one can escape.

>>publishers are looking for women, LGTBQ and people of colour ahead of white males (not bait)

How can we honestly saying anything about privilege with a straight face?

Felt okay until >(pun intended)
Only reddit/twitterfags use this

On the contrary I think people must be fooled into reading today

Genre fiction sells. The task of the 21st century is to turn genre fiction into art.

Until it gets boring

I think it's incorrect to say the masses have never been interested.

It would be a waste of time for me to point out that trashy books like 50 Shades tend to be widely read. But even more serious literature has often found a large mainstream audience in the past. Examples include Dickens and his serialized novels in the British newspapers etc, or the works of Jack London (although his pulpy stuff was more widely appreciated).

What I'm concerned about is the dwindling audience for literary fiction specifically. I think Cat Person was perhaps uplifting in the response it received, but even so many people mistook it as a "piece" or a blogpost or something. Perhaps that is the way forward, i.e. pitching pieces of fiction as brutally frank blog-type pieces, though of course this would mean sacrificing subtlety, creative means of expression and so forth.

Put it on your blog faggot

lol no

But what modern books that may be appreciated by Veeky Forums have been made into films? I'm sure there are some (The Circle comes to mind), but it doesn't seem as much of a "norm" as it once was to go from book to film.

This, good screenplay material doesn't mean a good book and vice versa

>suspect >she has a penis
>google pic
>it is indeed the case
god what ive become

>or a blogpost

It literally was though. It was autobiographical

What do you mean?

It has more to do with the interests of the elite. 200 years ago, if you didn't know the classics you were a brainlet. Today, if you don't know STEM you're a brainlet. STEM is where all the new money comes from. Technology is where all the social change is happens. So the new elites are people who consider the people in their schools' humanities departments to be a bunch of pretentious dudes and basic art hoes. Arts no longer hold their throne as a mark of culture/intelligence, it's all about dat maths now. The new elites see "literary fiction" as a mere affectation, like taste in pop music or something, it's no longer serious business. Young white boy who makes a startup doesn't care that his dad reads Faulkner. Young Pajeet making a killing at his cellular retail company doesn't give a fuck about literature or has his own weird ideas about western art.

Outside of affluent first worlders, art has never held much currency except indirectly as the wagies were shaped by the ideas of their masters, whose ideas were shaped by art. But now the masters are shaped by STEM. So literature is less relevant to both master and servant.

I avoid commie terminology for a reason but just insert what you want, you can see where I'm going with this.

>as long as there is books to adapt, books will not be forgotten by the media.
Wut? Mate, why even bother writing a book if Disney can just order their team of meme screenplay writers to pulp together material for the next blockbuster movie? Does not follow.

>retain a large audience
has literature ever really had a large audience?

He is too cute to be real, people like this make me mad jealous.

He means he hates women and minorities

Because that team of screenplay writers end up picking up a book so they don't need to come up with a story

they're just some tumblr mentalist who takes it for granted that everything easier for white males

It wasn't wholly autobiographical, in the sense of it being a literal retelling of actual events step-by-step. It was based on a bad date she experienced, but there are obvious literary embellishments there for the sake of creating a narrative and asserting character traits etc.

What I find interesting about Kristen Roupenian is the fact that before this piece she was partly known for writing horror fiction. I've written about this before, but I think it's interesting to consider the fact that she found it so easy to apply her experience writing horror to the modern dating scene. A natural progression, one might say. It's a shame she did an interview about the story and basically revealed that she was trying to shit on Robert with the ending, but other than that it was an interesting story IMO which really offered a frank portrayal of dating and love in general that cuts through the typical "her loins warmed for him" or "he entered her" tropes that generally passes for romance stories.

Yeah

>It's a shame she did an interview about the story and basically revealed that she was trying to shit on Robert with the ending

Agree with your perspective, the writing eclipsed
the writer

I agree with this, combined with the fact that the stuff that the new elite enjoy is trash. I would argue that most STEMfags don't see the appeal and instead completely disregard the medium, instead favoring Nerd Culture.

With your Dickens example, could it be that it was popular simply because it was the only thing in town at the time. Has reading lost its spectacle simply because there are more seemingly flashy things that one can spend their time with now?

>The only hope I can see is in Audiobooks.
I think there is a lot of hope here actually. Producing an audiobook is really an art in itself.

With the onslaught of information overload with which we are confronted today and the difficulty that induces in many on their ability to focus on something like a substantial text, audiobooks could be a huge boon, even a serious therapeutic tool imo.

Also, there is a lot of talk these days about mechanization, robots tekin our jerbs etc, but regardless there are still going to be a lot of mundane maintenance and service tasks that people are going to need to do for quite a while yet, and (as I've found from personal experience) audiobooks are a really wonderful way to do power through a repetitive, otherwise menial work day and still feel fulfilled and personally productive.

>is this the end (of music also)?
There is so much going on musically in the underground that is incredibly insightful and innovative. You just have to know where to look and what to look for, and that takes an appreciation of our contemporary context, i.e. of the overall impact had by the electric guitar. If you don't account for that piece of musical technology, I can see why you would look at Shostakovich and then at Glass and feel like this is the end, but if you can appreciate the apotheosis of metal that is happening right now, some of what is being produced these days is really quite amazing, in its own particular way.

>the apotheosis of metal
Somebody nuke this board, nuke it right now, end the suffering.

I developed a theory which probably isn't novel, which posits that the notion of "progress" for humanity / society consists largely in aspects of Elite culture becoming available by the "masses" who desire such things for their proposed high value.

Examples range from access to voting to Kitsch art, i.e. mass produced versions of previously unique pieces of high-value Elite art.

It also posits that such progress, while meaningful in some areas (access to affordable healthcare, voting etc) in others the breaking down of hierarchical barriers and widely distributing things that were previously reserved for a small minority (not necessarily just the rich, just the talented in some cases) on the one hand makes people applaud the democracy of such a decision, but on the other renders that thing boring and low-value due its mystique and distinction now being rendered common. An example in this case would be self-publishing, social media, blogging etc. While at one time literary expression took a long time to perfect, edit and so forth before finally squeezing its way past the cultural elites and released to the masses, it is now simply a matter of opening pastebin and writing a 2,000 furry fanfiction or self-publishing a novella about a woman who has an affair with a poltergeist. Although this does allow "hidden gems" to be discovered that would have otherwise been rejected, it also trivializes the whole affair to an extent, in the way that wearing Burberry is a big no-no for the fashionable.

The notion of racial and gender privilege as it's widely presented in America today, and to a lesser extent the rest of the west.

Oh, are most of today's published American authors white males? As in more than 30%(more than what's relative to their share of the population)? And you think that justifies positive discrimination towards the non-white, non-male, non-whatever author. Well then, you're carrying the burden of proof when you attribute that to racial privilege. I'll make fewer assumptions and say it's down to self-selection in career choices and perhaps just differences in average quality.
Maybe, I've been thinking under a misapprehension this whole time. Maybe publishers just throw themselves at white males, as opposed to writers who's work show promise in today's reader's market.

It reminds me of Pessoa's quotation about being understood as a form of prostitution.

>could it be that it was popular simply because it was the only thing in town at the time

Possibly / probably, but even so surely that still means something. Even if people only read the book (or any one of the many other serialized books that were well-received) because they lacked alternatives, I'm tempted to state that lacking distraction was a good thing and compelled them to focus on something marginally less boring than simply staring out the window or drinking at the pub. So much distraction available today is intended to take advantage of the most basic desires inherent in us, be it lust (pornography), callous curiosity (tabloid journalism), cheap laughs (vloggers etc) or whatever else.

>literature
>a large audience
what

>audiobooks

lol no, normies care less about those than regular books. The future of art is unironically video games BUT WAIT! Let me clarify.

I think what we have at the moment known as "video games", "interactive fiction", and a host of other ideas that are ultimately several art forms merged into one will eventually become a "supermedium". For example, a lot of vidya contains passages of text. A lot of IF contains music and so on. Right now, video games are primitive colosseums mainly developed to abuse dopamine loops and thus make money, in the same way that cave paintings were shit because the people making them were cave men. The cave men of video games are nerds. But video games are increasingly becoming part of the sphere of affluence, and a new generation of intelligent, well-read, accomplished people are starting to pay attention to video games.

So I think what will happen is that as the technology improves to make "video games" (the supermedium needs its own title really) more immersive they will go on to become art that rivals literary canon. When you can put on a pair of goggles and be instantly transported to a hyper-realistic simulation of WWII *in which you undergo a curated, well written experience that also allows some freedom of choice*, who the fuck wants to read a bunch of text? It will have more impact than words ever could. Bonus: you can read words while you're in the supermedium, and that may very well be a part of the experience itself. So in that way, literature becomes merely a part of something much greater, rather than a thing unto itself.

I will rescue it from the depths

>lol no, normies care less about those than regular books.

Untrue, they're growing at a rapid rate

One doesn't contradict the other.

I think you're onto something by focusing on interactive media, in a sense. The time of one author making a (relatively) one-dimensional work of art is over, but the time of a team of collaborating craftsmen, authors, designers etc. making, to use a tired term, "art experiences" that can be interacted with (which until now are still called video games, but will soon lose that label). There's massive potential in that, and it's in many ways closer to the forms of art we know from the times when writing first emerged.

Unfortunately, this will of course all be tied to the experiences consumers expect, which are dumb and formulaic, up to a point. But it'll develop, I'm sure, and there will be writers needed for this, in one particular role, more like the writers of the libretto for an opera than the author superstar.

Our prophet Dave foresaw it already 15 years ago in his meme interview. He already knew that people feel 'almost dread' reading away from social media and pop culture. It's not going to change unless people remove them altogether or unwire themselves. It will be just naturally becoming more difficult to find someone who can appreciate high art, even more so someone who can create it.

>who the fuck wants to read a bunch of text When you can put on a pair of goggles
the people who make art

They are? Personally I always though audiobooks were annoying, so I'd just grabbed a regular book.

im glad you ignored the rest of the sperg out /v/edditor post thank you for your service user. ill pay it forward somehow

>So much distraction available today is intended to take advantage of the most basic desires inherent in us
This is part of the giant problem. Why would I pursue any sort of higher art or knowledge if I can just sit around and jerk it? Pigs can be content sitting in the slop, I guess. However, thankfully not everyone has to be that way.

Is more immersion necessarily a good thing? Why does everything have to be an interactive experience? Can we not be content with sitting and reading?

I dunno if that's a novel idea either, but it's a good one that seems plausible.

Just because there is more stuff and stuff is moving faster doesn't mean everything is going to shit? Survival of the fittest, more noise to filter etcetera

>Is more immersion necessarily a good thing? Why does everything have to be an interactive experience?
so the consumer can be measured in every way possible

>tfw masters degree in mathematics and well-versed in literature

>"supermedium"
i feel baited

>Unfortunately, this will of course all be tied to the experiences consumers expect, which are dumb and formulaic, up to a point.

It will be same thing we have now. Sure, the popular "supermedium experiences" or whatever might be 50 Shades of Gray tier, but there will be a minority who appreciate and produce more artistic material as there also has been in any art.

But there is one big difference and great possibility: depending on how this type of thing is used, it may very well be so powerful that it shapes the masses of people who typically enjoy garbage into smarter, better people. When you are no longer subject to limitations of a given form and can literally force people to understand exactly what you want them to understand via an experience, there is no room left for error: they will see what you want them to see, and if done correctly it will probably make them want something more. For example, by having an experience that truly shows a reality in which mathematics are important (like the life of a young math prodigy who goes on to become an advertising magnate) and showcases why such a thing is desirable and is sympathetic to the user, it may very well make people want to be like that guy and pursue what he does, because they empathize with him in a way that they never could in other artforms.

>when all the politics of the past were a waste of time and you fix society by turning everyone into geniuses or at least relaxed, fair people who know longer wish to enslave each other, with futuristic video games

Here are the publishing strategies that I believe are available to the average Veeky Forums users, who I will describe as being: male, white, heterosexual, 18 - 35, working-to-middle class, college educated with a preference either for genre fiction (sci-fi, horror, Weird) or literary fiction. Apologies if that doesn't cover you.

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PUBLISHING STRATEGIES FROM PREDICTABLE OUTCOME TO UNPREDICTABLE OUTCOME

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>MFA Degree
Apply for an MFA and get in. Don't risk being @thatguyinyourMFA by speaking too much or stating a preference for dead white authors. Build connections and get some stuff published, build a portfolio and try and launch a career from that. Preferable have a "niche", i.e. being disabled, a war Vet, or from West Virginia. Examples: George Saunders, David Foster Wallace, Philip Meyer, Emma Cline, a ton of others.

>Beat The Game
Write a book. Pitch to agents. Get rejected. Keep pitching. Get some stories / poems published. Build a portfolio. Keep pitching. Get rejected. Keep pitching. Get published by an independent press. Get reviewed well. Get published by a larger publishing house. Examples: Tao Lin, Charles Bukowski, David Mitchell, a lot of others.

>Self-Publish On Amazon
Write a book. Prepare a marketing strategy. Set some money aside for promotional adverts etc. Send it around to some blogs. Allow a set amount of free purchases. Sell for a low price on Amazon and hope it gains traction via positive reviews, word of mouth and so on. Examples: Andy Weir, Amanda Hocking, Sheila Rodgers, a lot of people not discussed on Veeky Forums.

>Self-Publish On Veeky Forums
Write a book. Carefully edit your work. Carefully format your work to make it aesthetically pleasing. Upload it in PDF form. Either shill it relentlessly on Veeky Forums using various proxies to make it seem like it has received a large, positive response from various users thus forcing your meme and hoping the resident pseuds buy into the hype and shill it for you OR have some decency and simply present it for free and ask for feedback / a response and hope it gains natural memetic traction and becomes an internet dark horse, cult, Outsider art piece. Examples: My Twisted World, that guy who published his poetry pamphlet here and received ~300k views on Imgur, Train Story on 2chan, that homemade manga about the virgin girl who had sex with a female prostitute to overcome her anxiety, The Philmarilion, The Legend of the 10 Elemental Masters,

Cont...

>art will save the world
Are you on drugs?

>Dude just plug into the machine. It'll be great!
This sounds like the way humanity ends. This artform to end all artforms idea is very frightening to me.

Literature will unevitably die. It's a consequence of technology and the values of modern society. In this hedonistic world who would mind about literature or high forms of art? It does not matter anymore, our leaders think on terms of immediate benefit, so STEM is more important right now. Therefor, the average Joe just needs some soulless technical work to get the money to satisfies himself with mindless consumption.

Just embrace it and try to adapt literature to the new mediums (videogames unironically, movies, music)

__________

>Self-Publish In Print
Demand as many financial loans as possible for as much money as you can. Order as many copies as possible of your book fromm lulu or another printing company. Distribute these books en masse to select demographics (booksellers, book clubs, editors, respected writers, professors etc.) with a brief note explaining your background and ambitions. Flee across the border until the time comes when your book is published by a reputable press and the money you make from is sufficient to pay back the loan companies who would have requested a warrant for your arrest.

>Pizza Delivery
Acquire a pizza delivery person's uniform. Buy a large pizza and request an empty box to go with it. Place your manuscript in the empty pizza box. Head to the offices of a reputable publishing company. Tell the receptionist you are delivering a pizza, in an Italian accent, and claim not to understand her when she tells you to stop. Go to the office of the editors / publishers and leave both boxes for them, asking kindly that they consider your work in return for a free pizza.

>Kris Kristofferson Strategy
Kris Kristofferson struggled to find anybody willing to hear his songs. As a trained helicopter pilot he flew a helicopter and landed it in the garden of Johnny Cash, demanding that he consider his work. This plan succeeded and he became a household name. Lacking a helicopter licence or a driver's licence, your own version would involve your mother driving you around the country to the homes of writers you respect and having her wait nearby while you knock their doors with a copy of your manuscript, or otherwise pushing said manuscript (gradually, considering the bulk and amount of pages) through the letterbox of each home.

>Subversive Advertising
Print your own books and then leave them in several popular bookstores in a way that will not draw attention to your doing so but may well lead to an Influential Shopper (i.e. someone within the publishing world, or perhaps an actor or simply a lot of people etc.) to notice it and appreciate your enthusiasm and creativity and ask the salesperson who this author is and how much the book costs. On being informed that the book is not in fact part of their stock, the Influential Shopper will then take it upon themselves to find out who this elusive, mysterious writer is and why they have not attained the fame you deserve based on the quality of this intriguing, stimulating book.

>Henry Darger Strategy
Live a life of loneliness and destitution. Patiently if bitterly await your death in the hope that your work will be "discovered" by a landlord or some distant relative somehow informed of your death who would then, like the landlord of Henry Darger, feel compelled to find a publisher for your work, with the story of your mysterious life allowing the publishers to describe you as an Outsider artists, too pure to be appreciated in his own time.

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I think that covers them all.

...

I was being a bit facetious, but the grain I believe in is that such art could be more impactful than previous art in the same way that real life experiences are. You become a lot more empathetic to the experiences of others when you see them first hand and they interact with you. So let's say you want to write some great literary experience about a man's life as impacted by his pursuit of mathematics. If people experience this like a film except they are inside the film and it's all very real, it could change them in the same way real life experiences do. It becomes all the more relevant when you are actually there, and could encourage people to improve themselves by giving them a richer experience. If somebody never had an environment that encouraged mathematics, but then they get to experience one, it could open up a whole new world for them. Whether or not you actually live as the man himself, or are simply a character in the story, or the story allows a generic "user" and then changes entirely based on your blank slate's actions, who can know atm.

That said this also has horrifying implications if it is abused but whatever this is all just mega speculation and largely depends on the limitations of the technology and the economic reality of how it is enjoyed, so who knows exactly how this thing will be experienced. Unless they can put them in every person's head on the globe. Spooky sci fi dystopia scenario ahoy!

Just use it responsibly like 3 hours once every evening or so. The frightening issue isn't turning everyone into Matrix zombies, it's the potential for scary propaganda/malevolent advertising practices.

he thinks people will learn to love being cheated into empathy
are you even human?

People who spend 12 hours a day on twitter and video games were never readers or consumers of classical music or anything decent in the first place anyway. They're the people who 30 years ago would have been tv addicted couch potatos. Nobody has ever been converted from a life of classical scholarship into a gaming addict, they're just different people.

Your idea of the average Veeky Forumsizen is way off, I fear. There are way more 17 year old holocaust deniers than there are graduates.

I think that the decreasement of people who read is just an illusion. As wrote, we do plenty of reading, yet the physicality of the reading is being lost. This can be seen on the fanfic websites, amateur writing on facebook and stuff; reading is becoming digital and domestic. Probably the discontent relies on the little acceptance that people who wants to be published find. I am very optimistic, though, that nowadays (at least in latinamerica) we are entering into a new set of amateur corpora of readings who little by little may get more curious about canonic writings.

Everybody in this thread sounds like Joe 'its just a mater of time before we're all in the matrix, look at the iPhone compared to ten years ago' Rogan.

what makes it cheating? they still have agency, if they choose to act in a positive way based on the thing they have been shown, then it seems good to me. I guess it depends on how deterministic you want to view the situation, if the stats say that x people changed after experiencing a given piece in the supermedium, were they "cheated", or was it simply an effective artistic expression that worked for the better? I don't see how it's any different than any other art, and it's not like all of these supermedium experiences need be pure propaganda, aesthetics can work mysterious wonders too. It might be that aesthetic experiences simply change people when they are this effective.

What do you mean by "high art"? Do you mean the more elaborate kind of pieces which relies on pompous devices? Nowadays, I think, we are just in a very critisized literary movement which is just all too popular and which annoys ortodoxical people or those who focuses on the " what" rather than the "how"

I know you guys don't want to hear this, but if you can write a publishable book, it is VERY easy to get published. Look at the critique threads here, I don't want to be a dick but they're mostly full of totally embarrassing sophomoric shite. Its more comfortable to tell yourself that an international cabal of jewish lesbian communists are keeping you down, but its just self-pity. WRITE A GOOD BOOK is all the 'how to get published advice you need'.

Also, research have shown that the level of comprehension and attention is negatively affected, and thus our appreciation is reduced... So it is not good

>product of MFA culture
What is "MFA"?

Master of Fine Arts. An increasingly competative 1 - 3 year course, usually self-funded though occasionally financed by scholarships etc, in which you study creative writing in a workshop-style class with fellow aspiring novelists under the tutelage of an experienced published writer.

Lmao. I love the devolution of probability here.

Isnt this a tranny that's friends with Natalie mars

>and thus our appreciation

Not necessarily. I find it far easier to engage with a work through audio. As in I experience what is being talked about more emotionally and care about the ideas being expressed.
I might not be better for "studying" but if its between just scanning over a text and inputting the information as a bored rote act and actually experiencing what the author intended you to experience then audio would be superior for you.

the end of western civilization :)

>How can literature retain a large audience

sheer numbers

if 99% of people don't give a fuck about literature the 1% is still millions of people

In either case I'm confident as far as fiction goes that consumption of audiobooks will eclipse consumption of books very soon if they haven't already

>johnnycashreference.jpg

Complete brainlet. The elite personally funded arts. Paintings paid for by the elite wouldn't be publically displayed, nor would symphonies commissioned by royalty be doled out to the plebs. The elite may've provided an end goal of "get a rich guy to pay you to write" but that can still happen.

It's the common man that ultimately directs entertainment, and in a global world in which entertainment has to appeal to a number of different cultures and speakers simultaneously books don't cut it. Film, music, and pop culture- easily digestible and constantly available -are what drives this new paradigm.

And I know you want to jerk yourself off about your bachelors of engineering from the university of phoenix, but STEM doesn't matter. The humanities don't matter. If you want to get rich today you create an ephemeral startup built to take advantage of the ravenous hunger of the plebs and then trash it or grow it into a bloated monster as soon as you make your money. This goes for everything from owning a food truck to making an app.

>author earnings are decreasing year upon year
doesnt matter. period in 20th century where many writers made good money was an unusual spike on an otherwise flat line of penury, probably just running parallel with the west's overall peak in per capita prosperity mid-late 20th century
>smaller publishing houses are shutting down or merging with larger ones
this is just a corollary to the first point
>>publishers are looking for women, LGTBQ and people of colour ahead of white males (not bait)
doesn't matter. there always have been and always will be hacks who follow fashion.
>more aspiring authors are taking a shortcut via increasingly competative MFA programs
so?
>Or will modern literature become irrelevant over time, or paper books go the way of tape, vinyl etc?
less relevant in the sense that novelists and fiction writers have less social status than they had in 20th C so yes but no to the part about "going the way of vinyl and tape" that's an apples and oranges comparison, reading cannot be replaced by gizmo upgrades. pure introspection of the intellect and imagination and the effect that that has on your inner being cannot be replaced by any combination of gizmo-based audiovisual sensory bombardment, ever. reading is fundamentally irreplaceable from a phenomenological standpoint

as for the le internet replacing everything meme, people read articles and social media posts and stuff but the real texture of literature comes from INDIVIDUAL GENIUS and that can't be replaced by the hivemind of user memeing and shitposting. this makes me think of the old 'infinite chimps on typewriters producing the complete works of shakespeare' thought experiment - so far they fucking aren't. there isn't enough quality control on the internet because everyone is on it.

Your dogged subservience to mediocre and souless writing is repulsive.

*tips fedora*