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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Because anything that is created for financial gain caters for the lowest common denominator in order to maximise profit. What you end up with is very bland. That goes for music and film as well as books.
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One could argue the opposite; that artistic work created for intellectual pleasure is often not "accessible" to the viewer/reader/listener, whereas work created to appeal to popular taste is. I know that personally, for example, I'd rather read Harry Potter than Virginia Woolf, and listen to Abba rather than Schoenberg, but perhaps that simply goes to show how terribly plebeian my artistic tastes are.