02-11-2016, 01:38 PM
In the early 20th century, artists, and later the media, created groups and movements inspired by the political groups of the time which took complex philosophical and economic ideas and made big social clusterfucks. Media and communication technologies were also emerging, with all the charges, bills, payments, regulations, terms of use that came with those and other things. A lot of time and energy and lives wasted on these groups, along with all the emerging distractions, has taken a toll on literature. People still write good stuff despite, even because of all the distractions. None equal or surpass the giants of the past, not because everything's already been done but because what has been done is given too much ready-made authority.

