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7/13/2025, 12:04:37 AM
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHvRaOO8P4&pp=ygUSb3Jzb24gd2VsbGVzIHNvbmlj
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHvRaOO8P4&pp=ygUSb3Jzb24gd2VsbGVzIHNvbmlj
6/26/2025, 10:03:28 AM
2 main reasons:
-MFAication of the avenues towards publication means that all writers come from basically the same demographic; sheltered upper-middleclass tumblrites who've never worked a day in their lives but have either successfully entered an MFA program or networked their way into a circle of MFA attendees. These people have no real life lived experiences to draw from except relationship dramas and have a myopic worldview due to their lack of exposure to the wide array of human experience.
- Postmodern turn towards individualization: the only valued stories these days are of "lived experiences" but as noted in the point above, the writers who actually have the capacity to be published have zero lived experience. The current ideological dogma is that being black, queer, female, disabled etc. all count as wildly different lived experiences but in reality if your parents work in finance, you grew up in Manhattan, you attended an MFA program out of private HS, your lived experience will be essentially identical to someone of the same background but black or trans.
Another supplementary point that can be seen in all media is a gradual atrophy in storytelling. Writers, filmmakers, musicians etc focus on the concept of a story or its execution, but aren't able to tell a story with a compelling even perhaps basic story structure. Another consequence of a postmodern turn against traditional narrative structures. Compare for example Apocalypto with Eggers films; both have the same goal (portraying the past as alien yet relatable) but Gibson simply plugged in a conventional Hero's Journey narrative which made for compelling storytelling, while Eggers gets caught up in the details and always fails to deliver a coherent story structure.
-MFAication of the avenues towards publication means that all writers come from basically the same demographic; sheltered upper-middleclass tumblrites who've never worked a day in their lives but have either successfully entered an MFA program or networked their way into a circle of MFA attendees. These people have no real life lived experiences to draw from except relationship dramas and have a myopic worldview due to their lack of exposure to the wide array of human experience.
- Postmodern turn towards individualization: the only valued stories these days are of "lived experiences" but as noted in the point above, the writers who actually have the capacity to be published have zero lived experience. The current ideological dogma is that being black, queer, female, disabled etc. all count as wildly different lived experiences but in reality if your parents work in finance, you grew up in Manhattan, you attended an MFA program out of private HS, your lived experience will be essentially identical to someone of the same background but black or trans.
Another supplementary point that can be seen in all media is a gradual atrophy in storytelling. Writers, filmmakers, musicians etc focus on the concept of a story or its execution, but aren't able to tell a story with a compelling even perhaps basic story structure. Another consequence of a postmodern turn against traditional narrative structures. Compare for example Apocalypto with Eggers films; both have the same goal (portraying the past as alien yet relatable) but Gibson simply plugged in a conventional Hero's Journey narrative which made for compelling storytelling, while Eggers gets caught up in the details and always fails to deliver a coherent story structure.
6/24/2025, 5:37:00 AM
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DHHvRaOO8P4&pp=ygUSb3Jzb24gd2VsbGVzIHNvbmlj
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