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The ratio between writers and readers (consumers) is diminishing year by year. With consumers being lured away from literature into internet media, we can comfortably predict that in the future the ratio between readers and writers will be close to 1:1. I call this state 'peak literature', a state where everyone's main goal is to write and only read their contemporaries to build connections. When we reach peak literature, irony will overflow and insincerity will dominate the letters. Literature will become akin to the visual arts, in which a few select classics are either enjoyed by a general audience or this general audience will pretend to like these classics for intellectual credit. Anything new will be absorbed by an industry that relies on creative writing classes to both find a readership and generate income. After we reach peak literature, the fringes of society will inevitably turn to a kind of Folk Letters, away from the consumers market and become more community-oriented.

>> No.12597108

OP is an idiot

>> No.12597160

What is the /lit/ equivalent of le-rong-generation fags?

>> No.12597210

>>12597160
There are none. /lit/ is obssesed by the classics and it's common to find
>reading anyone who's still alive
memes being thrown around. Literature is becoming like classical music or museum-ready visual arts.

>> No.12598270

I feel the comparison with classical music is more apt than with the visual arts - a dying art form reserved for connoisseurs. Also "visual arts" is a bit vague, so is "literature", too general . But yes, indeed, printed prose fiction telling stories that require attention and time and that reference things outside of pop culture without hyperlinks and pictures is going to become something quite like what classical music or handmade ceramics or framed painted portraits have become, passéist and irrelevant

>> No.12598765

>>12597108
agreed same exact thing was said when TV was invented. Its like op has yet to read BNW. High society and Students will always keep literature where it is. And has anybody questioned that the more dumb society gets the easier it gets to sell books that are empty? DFW was closest thing to reaching mainstream we've has so far. Rupi Kaur is doing better than ever... If you can relate to general media tumbler fags, twitter fags,/r/books fags, and students than your going to blow up bigger than ever. If DFW wrote more books im sure he would have hit a pin point audience with college students,tumbler and twitter bums

>> No.12598836

>>12597160
Probably philosophers since there's next to nothing left to do in that field and no great schools of philosophy to join.

>> No.12599254

literature has been solved since the 19th century, it doesn't matter what happens next

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>>12596731

>> No.12599649

>>12599254
>"literature has been solved"

You're braindead if you think that's even possible.

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12599725

The good stuff will always outlast the bad stuff in the end, OP. Time judges all things accurately.