Given all the factors stacked against literature and literacy today, I think we're heading for a dark age of both art and intellect >1. The spread of AI and Internet addiction generally making people more illiterate, stupid and adverse to reading books as our mass culture becomes more oral-based through videos and podcasts>2. Most of the books that are being written and published are overt liberal propaganda promoted by the industry with the same core themes (romance, smut, diaspora subversion, self-help, LGBT, fantasy), written largely by affluent women who seek to maintain the system through refinement >3. There is no appetite for genuine hard-hitting literary fiction anymore and no way to make an impression, least of all if you're male and try to write something beyond those pre-determined themes
>>24960194>artThe more retarded and debased the goyim populations are, the greater the outliers will be that are capable of producing true art. This is true throughout all of history>intellectBoo hoo, the goyim are getting dumber. Easier for me to profit from them. Sounds like a skill issue OP.
>>24960200Write your literary masterpiece and become an intellectual if it's so easy, then
the midwits here won't understand what you are trying to say anon, they think this is the same as other past crises, they can't imagine that people won't want to read books anymore, quite funny when you consider this board holds a significant amount of people who can imagine by reading, these are the same people who refuse to read modern books, and yet when you tell them people's interests in books is waning, they are quick to remind you how they've read 100 books this year, all published before the year 2000
>>24960194Eh.
>>24960247Good. Books were a passing fad. We are returning to oral tradition.
>>24960257The "oral tradition" in question is a bunch of brain-rotting podcasts, short-form videos, dishonest conservative slopulism and self-help rubbish. Our oral and video culture today produces no genuine art or intelligence unlike oral cultures of the past. We're not gonna have a fucking Homer in our midst, just Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes
>>24960257no we are rushing towards vr headsets and body implants as the next form of entertainment, books, music, video and gaming will pale in comparison to what you can experience once these technologies become mainstream, when ai porn becomes a thing, relationships will become painful and unnecessary, these are all the ai usecases the bubble are missing, this will make social media feel like a flue, it will completely upend human culture and not in an edgy cyberpunk fantasy manner, but in a way that we can no longer go back or reminisce about, ai will not kill us, but it will definitely destroy out culture and what it means to be human, but just keep arguing about people reading books and everyone having ubi, inb4 llms--i'm talking about what succeeds them
>>24960257i showed ur mum my oral tradition if u kno what i mean take a guess
>>24960257>oral traditionyes they are not reading but they are listening to ebooks, so it works out the same anyway
>>24960274The one technology I always feared was some kind of VR thing. And there’s no better VR than our dreams. A technology that enables people to lucid dream for extended periods of time like in Inception would definitely fuck up a lot of things. People would literally sleep all day and never leave the house
>I think we're heading for a dark age of both art and intellectwe are already there
>>24960279you licked my cum out of his mother's cunt
>>24960194simple: it's not appealing to young men anymore, in schools you are forced to read and almost never read the whole thing, modern publishing is women-dominated so it has zero value to men who would prefer anything other than bestiality sex romanceyou have so many other more stimulating distractions that reading is probably the last thing you would do, it just can't handle the competition with porn, video games and tiktok>>24960247>they are quick to remind you how they've read 100 books this year, all published before the year 2000so what?universities teach and expect you to know the classicsschools are also focused on the classics written before the year 2000 (at least this was my experience and I probably graduated later than anyone itt)they passed the test of time, they are great and well known works and there's so much of it that you will never run out of stuff to readmodern publishing dying does not prevent me from enjoying the classics that still get somewhat regular reprints, I don't care if it all burns to the ground, it has no value>>24960519>ps2gtaniggerball and gunzracing gamesfightanrpg/jrpg>xbawksgtagunz with multiplayer (the novelty of that generation)rpgracingyour point? boomers were the original consumers of dogshit games, pretty much nothing has changedthe current ps5 best selling list looks almost identical
>>24960194Wow, OP, such insight! Really makes you think!
>>24960194Good, the world gets what it fucking deserves.
>>24960257Ong bruh ts brd pmo lk we gt joe rogan n they tlmbt muh boox
>>24960194>Most of the books that are being written and published are overt liberal propagandathroughout the 20th century in order to get published a novel needed a pornographic scene. ironically by remaining unpublished lovecraft avoided generating cash for copyright jews
You have it all wrong, it is because less people read that we're going for a golden age.Mass literacy has brought standardisation, scalability, and market optimisation in an industry that was dominated with literary pursuit and philosophy. Readers get dumber and dumber as our strained education system fail to give the bare minimum to even read a core author as colossal as Shakespeare, classes overcrowded with below-average children from illiterate families in which reading is a chore. The expected contamination from series, movies and similar entertainment rewarded accessibility, immediacy, and emotional overload over complexity and challenging inquiries into our condition and affairs.When writing is no longer sustained by a mass market, it will cease to be governed by consumer metrics and cater to the tastes of the unlearned. Do you really believe that classics would be best-sellers, in our current age? All serious intellectual cultures are elitist in the minimal sense that they presuppose initiation, training, and exclusion. When your reading base is a bunch of wealthy families, bred over time among the top percentile with ample resources to give a top-level education to their children, you can set the bar really high. Would our slop-fueled populace be responsible to a bold retelling of the Argonautica, filled with intertextuality and references to classics ancient and modern? We both know the answer.Assuming you're right, the society will finally split again, illiterate hordes no longer required nor invited to partake in intellectual endeavors (or pretend to), and erudition recovering among a small, elite core of the population no longer concerned with market-driven forces. Further turmoil and instability will prove a fertile soil for creativity and reflection. I think that Kundera once commented that the more unstable, dangerous and precarious a society is, the best writers are, for such experiences are a requirement to any serious attempt at writing.
>>24960194Most people have always been and always will be hopeless brainlets. Mass literacy was a mistake which debased the entire field. Literature works best as an elite aristocratic art.
>>24961028What makes you think the more elite, educated populace won’t end up becoming just as retarded?
>>24960274Understandable. But in the end as much as AI can make endless entertainment it is limited in it's scope to be able to end. How all good stories come to an end. Take modern infinite enterainment for example the video game WoW. It has near infinite things you can do everyday and yet many people have stopped playing the game. Very simply because the story got shit and the gameplay got saturated with boring repetitive actions. All great medium starts with a mental idea progressing to written word following to vidya and a great example of this is Witcher. Yes not everyone read Witcher but the few that did transformed into a global medium for everyone to enjoy. Soon the Witcher will come to an end of it's era only for something else to succeed it. AI will likely suffer from what it can't give, social companionship of real people. VR most addictive game is a chatroom, you know, with other people. AI will hook people like heroin hooks it's victims but sometimes they have to put down the needle to eat and fill their tummies.
>>24961317anon, people are going to live in the metaverse or some version of it, only coming out to eat and shit, this btw is the most viable solution to what happens after ai automates everything, i think futurama has an episode on this where farnsworth's parents live in some kind of vr after life and he can plug in and interact with them, so it doesn't even have to be a video game, it could be a simulation of your imagined past, future, etc, its pretty scary stuff when you sit down to really think about it, this is the next social media glued-to-your-screen phenomenon
>>24960194>heading for a dark age of both art and intellectNo one give OP the bad news
>>24961028Based and aristopilled
>>24961288It must be understood the other way round, it is because that segment of the population won't get retarded that it will become an elite. Assuming a wealthy family failing to resist the course of events, their children will be unable to preserve capital (financial and cultural), and one or two generations will be enough to sweep them away. Conversely, protected children will not only be able to secure a valuable position in society, but will also possess the resources to understand the situation (it is not as though the scientific literature were silent on the consequences of what we are discussing, screens, smartphones, and so on). As with every civilisational transition, there will be an initial phase of modest social mobility. Nothing unheard of.
>>24961344You could be living in that simulation right now is what makes it the most scary.
>>24960194I still have some hope that people will start abandoning the Internet as it becomes increasingly unusable the more it's flooded with AI slop.
>>24961028>a core author as colossal as ShakespeareThis is a side note but you do realize Shakespeare was pop culture in his own time, right? The cheapest tickets were a penny.
>>24960257We're approaching a brain rotting omnipresent "discourse" where Jewish talking heads tell us our opinions from all directions while AI powered bots reinforce the correct mechanisms of thought through algorithmic containment chambers. Its truly shocking how little the internet resembles real life anymore. If theres any saving grace its how incredibly crappy and low quality it all is.
