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This. Also equating success with merit is a very capitalist thing to do. https://twitter.com/lyta_gold/status/1264973041085358081">https://twitter.com/lyta_gold...
I posted earlier today that podcasts are the vanity publishing of radio and honestly, it& #39;s true. There are more print on demand self-published novels you can buy than you could ever hope to read in your entire life. No doubt some of them are masterpieces.
But you will never read them because there are MILLIONS of other mediocre-to-bad novels all around it.
This is what the publishing industry promises authors & readers: we sort through the chaff to bring you the "good stuff." This works if merit was something actually rewarded
This is what the publishing industry promises authors & readers: we sort through the chaff to bring you the "good stuff." This works if merit was something actually rewarded
under capitalism, but capitalism only rewards profit--which means popularity. There are plenty of shitty published novels.
Then again, how do we decide what is "good" art and what isn& #39;t? Who gets to decide? This is a philosophical question, and of course the answers will depend on the prevailing culture and individual feelings of the people examining the question.
In the end I don& #39;t know necessarily how to solve this problem, and I think the difficulty of solving it plays a large role in so many leftists seeming to completely write off creative pursuits as bourgeois or childish.
Instead of "then again," I should have said, "That said," this would have made this thread make more sense 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Face with tears of joy" aria-label="Emoji: Face with tears of joy"> Still annoyed I can& #39;t edit tweets
