The other arts are changed drastically by technology in their forms: acrylic and oil paints, canvases, newer and stronger instruments. Beethoven's powerful music would not have existed without the technological evolution of the Piano over the delicate Harpsichord.https://twitter.com/GolfNorman/status/942819990729822208 …
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The changing social role of the storyteller was less significant than the fact that it was impossible to educate more than 10%-25% of the population into elite culture
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I don't think that has changed too much. Elite culture has evolved beyond the grasp of the common regardless.
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that's exactly my point. elite culture was never within the grasp of the common; and for most of human history it was the only culture. Then our elite tried to adapt literature to the needs of the mass, and now there neither an elite nor a culture
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