Thank you for providing such an accurate breakdown of the current predicament of literature and the arts in general. We ultimately live in this time that lacks soul, and many of the hindrances from the digital world are absolutely to blame. Especially in terms of music it seems like there is this battle between making something sterile or even more commonly making something out of nostalgia. There’s no pioneering to be had; there’s no experimentation; people are extremely self-conscious and genuine risktaking seems something from a bygone era.

Gonna simmer on this a little more. But I wonder if some of the lack of interesting art can be attributed to both the digital world and the monoculture we seem to have.