Why are the people who get to do so much writing for a living always so low-brow? There’s so much literature that’s more interesting than children’s fairy tales.
Because the fairy tale stuff is what is popular with people, and in our capitalist world, if you want to make enough money to pay rent, your writing has to be popular enough to pay you enough. So people have to make allusions to really well known popular stuff, you can’t get an homage to classic cinema or obscure novels, it has to be something that lets the audience do that Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme.
Why are the people who get to do so much writing for a living always so low-brow? There’s so much literature that’s more interesting than children’s fairy tales.
Speaking as someone who writes for a living, it’s because the audience wants primarily low-brow slop. It’s annoying, but it’s also a living
Because the fairy tale stuff is what is popular with people, and in our capitalist world, if you want to make enough money to pay rent, your writing has to be popular enough to pay you enough. So people have to make allusions to really well known popular stuff, you can’t get an homage to classic cinema or obscure novels, it has to be something that lets the audience do that Leonardo Dicaprio pointing meme.