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How much content is too much? Is the job of the writer merely to produce more and more content? New TV series which are slowly converting every original work o
by Gatsky 6y ago
How much content is too much? Is the job of the writer merely to produce more and more content?
New TV series which are slowly converting every original work of art into something that can be passively consumed on the couch. And the remakes and resurrections and remixes of proven favourites. More podcasts than there are hours in the week. Reams of self-published books, endless blog posts, often highly detailed and very well researched. Then all the tweets, social media posts, videos, not to mention very high quality youtube content...
It's a deluge. I find myself paralysed sometimes, unable to choose what to look at next. Being a content creator (artist?) must surely become dminished in the face of this overwhelming amount of content.
It isn't going away, this democratisation of content publishing. But I wonder if we will ever have any 'classics' ever again.
- WA 6y agoMaybe the classics are classics because of the time they were written in and you KNOW this as a reader. If you read a classic with a new cover, new title, and believe it's from a contemporary author, it might be garbage. Also: less books and fewer authors in the past, so some books bubble to the top and are considered a classic for several reasons. Many people read them. Nowadays, everything is more fragmented, which can be a good thing.