People often forget that most of life is just boring or trivial, so when they're exposed to a new medium they see all the boringness and triviality and then dis

People often forget that most of life is just boring or trivial, so when they're exposed to a new medium they see all the boringness and triviality and then dismiss the entire medium. In reality a representative example off literature is a shitty fantasy novel, not Shakespeare. It's only because we've had centuries to accumulate lots of great material and billions of hours of work putting into judging, reviewing, and curating works of literature that are of value that we value and respect the medium.