tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191202267854919416.post682157491383714307..comments2023-08-20T08:59:05.893-06:00Comments on Writer, Cogitator, Recovering Ranch Girl: Are We Making Progress?Tamarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06986544384594087203noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191202267854919416.post-40840237156592202472012-04-11T10:57:58.343-06:002012-04-11T10:57:58.343-06:00Sorry I missed your comment earlier, Melospiza!
I...Sorry I missed your comment earlier, Melospiza!<br /><br />I'm like you. I want to believe that we're not getting worse! Very true about better TV, though I hadn't thought about that. There's still a lot of bad TV.<br /><br />Maybe that's part of it too - a lot more quantity with fewer gatekeepers.<br /><br />Thanks so much for stopping by!<br /><br />~ TamaraTamarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06986544384594087203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191202267854919416.post-60454957387434417012012-03-27T16:32:00.859-06:002012-03-27T16:32:00.859-06:00As I read the Newsweek best seller list I kept stu...As I read the Newsweek best seller list I kept stubbornly insisting to myself that THINGS AREN'T THAT BAD NOW I SWEAR. Not that I could come up with data for that assumption...but doesn't it seem like writers like Jonathan Franzen, Philip Roth, & Joan Didion regularly make the best seller list? Yeah, in any given week most of the stuff being shoveled out the door in massive quantities is...fun...rather than grappling; but we still have Big Books mixed in with the rest. And on the flip side, TV is about a million trillion times more intelligent than it was in 1966. So it's not that we are dumber now, so much as more smart people watch TV instead of, or in equal quantities with, reading. Which is depressing in a different way, I guess. Hmm.Melospizahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02967972017593146047noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191202267854919416.post-80568789589391331872012-03-26T14:08:40.196-06:002012-03-26T14:08:40.196-06:00Hahahahaha! I like that. I'm hoping it's...Hahahahaha! I like that. I'm hoping it's because of other trends myself ~ not that people are dumber, but having to do with publishing/market forces. Though, in the current political climate, I'm edging a little more in your direction!<br /><br />:-)Tamarahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06986544384594087203noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5191202267854919416.post-36914170735956270702012-03-26T11:05:10.399-06:002012-03-26T11:05:10.399-06:00I went through the side-by-side comparison online....I went through the side-by-side comparison online. Conclusion: We're dumber now.Terrible thought. You would think that more people read for pleasure back then, so that the fiction would be trashier in 1966, whereas people who go for trash would be online in 2012. The only real trash in '66 is Valley of the Dolls. Who is bestselling today that is the equal of John O'Hara or Graham Greene?Davehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08292652080283932143noreply@blogger.com