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Originally Posted by Penforhire
The internet and TV drive the masses toward homogenizing and lowest-common-denominator. Sure, there are bastions of intellectualism, say MobileRead for example. But we do not dominate society. American Idol, Survivor, and assorted other pseudo-reality TV shows dominate. Sites like YouTube, Netflix, Google, and Twitter dominate the internet.
I am mourning the loss of traditional written epics, something I studied in college. It takes a cultural basis to put an epic into context. The closest I sense we come to that these days is in the cyberpunk genre, such as William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, or Charlie Stross. They write about post-cultural worlds that may come to pass.
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The idea of domination has come to pass, it is no longer relevant. All things are a part of the culture. Without any of them we would have nothing.
You might be happy to know that I am currently working on an epic poem, not sure when it will be ready, but you never can tell with these types of things.
