"People write worse poetry than they used to, the books are worse now, and all the architecture is terrible." What percentage of newly created poetry, books, a

"People write worse poetry than they used to, the books are worse now, and all the architecture is terrible." What percentage of newly created poetry, books, and architecture do you read or look at? There's an absolute glut of information right now, and no human is capable of consuming more than a tiny fraction of it. I'm absolutely sure that "great" creative work is being made right now, but it's going to take time for humanity to sift through everything out there to find the gold. That's not to mention that one man's trash is another man's treasure, and plenty of people who we consider "great" now were completely ignored or even denigrated in their lifetimes.