/lit/ - Literature

Here's a question. Why is it that shit like pic related is so common here even among posters not trying to put people down? 90% of people who post here are always trying to emulate the very top-tier like Joyce, Nabokov, Tolstoy, McCormack, Dostoevsky, (Not really Beckett because you fags don't read him), Pynchon, etc. etc. and then you pick up any popular fiction now and the prose will be dogshit, the plot based on circular logic and complete sitcom levels of common sense defeciency.
Is it really worth attempting to hold to a standard most people literally can't even comprehend? I've read a lot of shit here over the years and my criticism has always been very light, especially in comparison to a lot of other people, and I see a lot of anons writing stuff that wouldn't look out of place if I was to walk into a book shop and pick up a "X prize winner". I think a lot of the stuff here is publishable and isn't as terrible as people make it out to be but I think a lot of seething fags ruin it. You might not become the next Joyce, Proust or whatever but fuck anons a lot of you are good enough to make it.

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