Re: The sources of suffering (Grow up!) ( Was Re: HarryPotter, Metritocracy, and Reward)
On Aug 25, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Carrol Cox wrote:
That’s my prediction: that national and world literature will
disappear and poets, composers, painters will produce only or mostly for
those in their own communities.
Not to sound like a vulgar Marxist or anything, but this is going to
happen in a world of instantaneous and near-costless communication?
The whole underlying point of the passage in the Manifesto about a
world literature is that capitalism had created a world economy,
which means a global society. That’s more true today than ever.
What is a “community” anyway? We travel, migrate, communicate like
crazy.
Doug