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1. stucki+a2[view] [source] 2023-02-18 18:25:59
>>GavCo+(OP)
Censoring old children's books. Yikes. This is frightening in more ways than one.

Besides the obvious censorship, and rewriting the past being a bad thing. I can't wait to see what they do to "Brave New World", "Fahrenheit 451" and "1984". It'll be ironic and sad if they burn the old unedited Roald Dahl books.

But also have we reached cultural stagnation, that old media still out competes new ones by such orders of magnitude ?

This is a huge problem, when every year we graduate more and more people wanting to be writers, artists, etc. This will only get worse with books now being written by ChatGPT and art by Dall-E/Midjourney/Stable Diffusion.

Have we reached "peak multimedia" content ?

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2. jemmyw+Id[view] [source] 2023-02-18 19:34:32
>>stucki+a2
> But also have we reached cultural stagnation, that old media still out competes new ones by such orders of magnitude

Where is the next Dahl? Why is there no modern Beatrix Potter? Kids still love those stories and style of writing, which is less trite than most of the modern children's books.

It does feel like stagnation, with lots of content being churned out but none of it with great staying power. Instead the old stuff is regurgitated endlessly with less and less of it's original soul.

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3. bitwiz+BN[view] [source] 2023-02-18 23:57:20
>>jemmyw+Id
Careful what you wish for. The best candidate for a modern Beatrix Potter would probably be J.K. Rowling.

And we all know what the deal is with her now.

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4. jemmyw+TR[view] [source] 2023-02-19 00:29:13
>>bitwiz+BN
I think all that political stuff is over blown and her opinions are way more nuanced. Personally, I just don't like her writing. The stories are probably ok but the writing itself is boring. Plenty of people obviously like it though. However, her audience is for older kids than I'm talking about.
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