/lit/ - Literature

>>22907163
The rich had books, but throughout history the masses had a culture of oral tradition, which was rich in poetry, epics, philosophy, folk songs, dance, plays, and the wisdom woven into them through metaphors and allegories. What you are describing is the cultural and civilizational post-apocalyptic shithole the western world turned into after the cult of Jesus took over, after destroying all indigenous culture, traditions and arts. In the rest of the un-Christianized and Islamized world average people still had taste in all kinds of arts.