>>712881702The fuck are you talking about? The best writers have always been ones that were worldly and inspired by their experiences and culture, not the ones with carefully cultivated existences from university.
The reason writers are so shitty today is because the good ones are gate kept from the industry unless they had a foot in the door prior to 2008, and the ones that remain are all crony/diversity hires that wouldnโt know culture if they were force fed a petri dish.
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>>712882337pointed out, writers today know nothing about the classics that inspired older writers, or even the pulp that the enthusiastic nerds used to pull from. At best they can be counted on to have read some YA books.