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50 Shades of Gray may be a best seller, but that doesn't make it a classic. Some books sell well, and then are forgotten. The phenomenon of people complaining that things aren't as good as they were in the "good old days" is heavily entrenched. There is records of people making such complaints thousands of years ago. They tended to be wrong, but it is of course possible that books today really are inferior.
But since there is so heavy a precedent of people looking at the past with rose-colored glasses, I require more than just the mere possibility. It is possible that the man carrying a "The end is near!" sign may be right, but I want to see some solid evidence. Prove to me that there is nothing really good in American literature. Prove to me that you're not simply seeing the penny dreadfuls of today while you forget about the penny dreadfuls of the past. I don't need to prove the blogger wrong. I need to see proof that the blogger is right.
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