We're not keen on the idea of the story sharing its valence with the reader. But the reader's own life 'outside' the story changes the story.
From David Foster Wallace
This is nourishing, redemptive; we become less alone inside.
Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se.
This might be one way to start talking about differences between the early postmodern writers of the fifties and sixties and their contemporary descendants.
TV's 'real' agenda is to be 'liked,' because if you like what you're seeing, you'll stay tuned. TV is completely unabashed about this; it's its sole raison.
I think TV promulgates the idea that good art is just art which makes people like and depend on the vehicle that brings them the art.
Fiction's about what it is to be a human being.
The other half is to dramatize the fact that we still 'are' human beings, now. Or can be.
I just think that fiction that isn't exploring what it means to be human today isn't art.
This diagnosis can be done in about two lines. It doesn't engage anybody.
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