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Sometimes I read old books and It’s painful because I know there is no one alive who could write as well as the old authors did because of declining iq/standards/literacy and it only stands to get worse as more and more writing is taken on by AI The upshot is there’s too many books for one person to read as it is so
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How much can we learn by reading only the past tho The learnings are to be extracted by those who can write today
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This is an interesting take. Imo, it has a lot to do with intention. Imagine a world where/when most of the people is unable to express themselves beyond oral and not even so, in that context writing becomes a sort of superpower: the ability to transcend time and space. Today we have it way easier, ergo, we settle or give it for granted.
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Hmmm do you have an example of a book that couldn’t be written today? I guess I feel it’s more a change in what is commercially viable vs what is actually possible. I’m sure there are people who can write like that it’s just not as popular so they do something else with their time.
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i agree😭 Richard Powers is one current writer whose prose still blows me away. good stuff is hard to come by
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I disagree about declining IQ and literacy. And while taste is relative, I think what feels special about old books is that we get a glimpse of what it meant to be a mind fully immersed into the Gutenberg galaxy. That world no longer exists.
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idk the youth is cracked too
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I agree. They say there are no new ideas, but I'm not as sure of that as I am sure of no new writers, myself included.
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me reading fifty shades
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Exactly. I guess we just have to enjoy the old books
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💯 while there are some modern authors/writers I enjoy, there's not much comparable when you're consuming the likes of Toni Morrison. There are stellar horror authors though if you're looking for recs!
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life is cyclical, in the dark ages no one could read or write like that for hundreds of years and it had to be rediscovered later, it’ll come back again one day
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No one is as committed to writing as they were back in the day
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There’s a weight to old books, a depth that feels hard to replicate. we just have to keep reading.
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As someone that got a very big book collection, I fully agree.. Sadly
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