More on the Literary-Industrial Complex

Why do we care about this? Well for a lot of reasons.

First, the thing has produced a lot of great work. Look at the movies we get to see. The books we read. The poetry we hear. There are a lot of wonderful authors out there who have given us all millions of hours of absolute ecstasy.

We've learned a lot about the world we wouldn't have known. He met some characters we wouldn't have met otherwise. We were, and continue to be, moved in ways we would not have been otherwise.

When Carl Sandburg calls Chicago the city of broad shoulders, hog butcher to the world, these are images that stay with us and shape the way we think.

So is this bad? Not in itself, no.

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