> Amazon and Goodreads ratings, and numerous online book-reviewing sites, have all contributed to and reflected the democratization of the arbitration of litera

> Amazon and Goodreads ratings, and numerous online book-reviewing sites, have all contributed to and reflected the democratization of the arbitration of literary taste. But such democratization is not intrinsically a good thing. Same phenomenon, though, occurs with TV/Film. Brett Easton Ellis's podcast riffs (extensively, caustically and yet wonderfully) on this "democratization of art" as it occurs in TV & Film.