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Originally Posted by bill_mchale
The fact that you disdain the corporations' interest in whatever sells the most copies suggests that you also believe that the public at large has poor tastes (after all, they are the ones buying, reading, watching and listening).
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You do realise that the largest movie market in the world is the porn industry, right?
And yet nobody confuses the medium with the message there (I hope).
Similarly with books (and authors): most works are not meant to educate, or to make one think; they're just meant to
entertain. As such, they're fairly interchangeable, and, I dare say, will not be remembered in 10 years time, let alone 100. Books are just a container, after all.. The fact that words are contained in it says nothing about the (quality of the) content.