BonosSaint
Rock n' Roll Doggie
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Last five or ten years? Are we producing much of anything that is cutting edge, provocative, intelligent, original that isn't indie and/or animated?
Not so much of a criticism as a question. I don't watch much TV and I hardly ever go to the movies. But just by following other media, it seems that most of the tv shows are really insipid sitcoms or reality tv that is voyeuristic, cheap to produce (therefore cost effective) and eliminates the need for writers. (Where are the writers?). Mainstream movies are sequels or remakes of movies or tv shows that don't need to be remade. We don't have musicians as much as we have pop creations.
I haven't seen any interesting new writers with prolific potential (ie lots of thick, well-written, character and theme driven, makes you think novels) popping up. My favorite living writers are getting old now and when they kick it, I'm hard pressed to replace them.
(Can't afford Broadway, so can't tell you what is going on there)
Where are the writers? Where are the creative forces? Unless I'm wrong, the last really creative burst we had was in Seattle in the nineties
I know all the reasons for the decline. I'm just hoping I'm missing something out there. Can anybody point me in a new direction?
Or does the culture just continue to decline because we don't have the attention span to bother with it anymore? Are we too dumbed down?
(We had a high school student working for us who was moaning about the difficulty she was having getting through "Animal Farm."--"Animal Farm?")
Not so much of a criticism as a question. I don't watch much TV and I hardly ever go to the movies. But just by following other media, it seems that most of the tv shows are really insipid sitcoms or reality tv that is voyeuristic, cheap to produce (therefore cost effective) and eliminates the need for writers. (Where are the writers?). Mainstream movies are sequels or remakes of movies or tv shows that don't need to be remade. We don't have musicians as much as we have pop creations.
I haven't seen any interesting new writers with prolific potential (ie lots of thick, well-written, character and theme driven, makes you think novels) popping up. My favorite living writers are getting old now and when they kick it, I'm hard pressed to replace them.
(Can't afford Broadway, so can't tell you what is going on there)
Where are the writers? Where are the creative forces? Unless I'm wrong, the last really creative burst we had was in Seattle in the nineties
I know all the reasons for the decline. I'm just hoping I'm missing something out there. Can anybody point me in a new direction?
Or does the culture just continue to decline because we don't have the attention span to bother with it anymore? Are we too dumbed down?
(We had a high school student working for us who was moaning about the difficulty she was having getting through "Animal Farm."--"Animal Farm?")