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Personally, I don't really care about the direction literature will take or how it will shape things. I read for one purpose and one purpose only, to escape from real life. Well, that and learn things I need for work/school, but I consider that studying and to be different.
I know this is horrible for someone who has helped teach English/Literature (and wants to be a certified teacher), but I find some 'great literature' to be anything but that. What makes something more valuable for society over something else? The fact that people call it 'great'? And I am not talking sales numbers. I am talking mostly older books that are usually considered for studying.
So, if you really want to discuss authorship and literature I'm sure you can either start a thread here or find a site where everyone wears jackets and sweaters with leather patches on the elbows and smokes pipes while pontificating on 'great literature'. Oh, and after a while you will find that they keep saying the same things over and over as well.
No, I don't hate you, you have the right to say what you want, even if it isn't new.
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