/lit/ - Literature

>I don’t have to suck up to the status quo! I can just self publish or write to a market!
When will you retards learn that any canonised writer had to suck up to the regime and make art for the status quo? Edmund Spenser wrote for the Queen of England, as did Shakespeare. All court poets or skalds were part of the retinue of the King or Jarl. Even someone like Genghis Khan had writers he wanted to make propaganda. Name any current successful writer, like Stephen King or JK Rowling. They represent the interests of the elite parties. Just because one is “a liberal” and the other a sort of “conservative” doesn’t mean they don’t represent the same status quo. They make art as propaganda for the state and the big parties.