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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Of course you are right. But why is that so? Because most people prefer that fare to well written books. The majority of people never will be intellectuals, so the books that tender to them will do well -- same on TV. Look at German TV. You have the subsidized government programs, which have exceeding low ratings when they feed people the "higher quality" programming and the high ratings for private stations and the "lower quality" programming of the publicly owned stations. That is just democracy at work. You sell people what people want.
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Well... I, personally, do not. But yes, there are plenty that will and do. You do see that this problem would also be somewhat addressed by my drastic scheme, which would so callously deprive the world of geniuses of Hemingway's and the Beatles' calibre for centuries to come.
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