12. In 1920s Lewis decried how "Western Man" was becoming infantilized, blaming mass culture, feminists and "the homos."
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13. Lewis criticized writers like Hemingway and Gertrude Stein for alleged childish baby writing that eschewed executive will & intelligence
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14. Lewis found a regrettable solution to the crisis of manhood/adulthood: Hitler.
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15. IMPORTANT NOTE: I am NOT saying A.O. Scott is a fascist. Rather noting potential misuse of these ideas.
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16. It seems odd for us to think of Hemingway & Stein they way Lewis did, as childish writers. Why did he make mistake?
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17. Answer to riddle is that the making of art is always childish activity. All artists & writers start making stories & images as toddlers
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18. Lewis was right in seeing childish element in Heminway & Stein: were returning language to primordial form as play & direct expression
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19. All good artists are part children: they activate the playing part of their brain. It's only hacks who are fully adult (in bad sense).
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20. Lurking behind Scott's essay is anxiety not just about patriarchy/adulthood but also the proliferation of cultural democracy
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21. We live in a culture where there are (in both relative & absolute terms) more artists than ever before, clamoring for attention.
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22. Scott is eloquent on this point: "We have more stories, pictures and arguments than we know what to do with,"
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23. "...and each one of them presses on our attention with a claim of uniqueness, a demand to be recognized as special."
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24. In a society of millions of artists, the critic (i.e. Scott) can easily feel beleaguered: only adult in nation of children.
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