/lit/ - Literature

>Salman Rushdie is working on a Showtime series.

>George R.R. Martin's 'A Song of Ice and Fire' is the basis of 'Game of Thrones' television series.

>Michael Chabon is creating a HBO series about Nazi-fighting magicians.

>Jonathan Franzen's 'The Corrections' are prepared as a "drama series project," to potentially co-star Anthony Hopkins and air on the cable channel HBO.

>Neil Gaiman to adapt novel American Gods for HBO.

>>1742236
>inb4 countless great peoples in art and history have been somewhat androgynous in their personalities and traits and always have been.

>Write an essay about essay writers writing essays on essay writers writing essays on essay writers writing essays on taking notes.

Humans are a bunch of idiots walking around doing hedonistic things, nothing really has tangible value, even 'work' becomes a problematic counter-point since all it does is create hedonistic devices and give people the paper money to buy into hedonism. Plus, there's a vague, thin line between art and work, or even pleasure and effort. Art can become work, and vice verse.

As subversive as you wish to be, you still rub your dick at night and cum on into your palm, and you're not thinking about anything incredibly mentally stimulating when it happens.

Problem?

Also, if the argument is "well, I'm saying this because others tout it as ___", well, it's definitely more mentally stimulating than other forms of art, since it's up to us to create and receive everything. Plus, the breadth of what's allowed to be expressed is greater, thus is definitely more practical and contains more knowledge volume. Also, because of this, there's naturally less of a focus on profit and product, not everything is run through a super rigorous rubrick of "should this corporate big wig waste his precious crack money on this?"