… it’s worth recalling this post about poetry, fakery, cultural theft, and stolen identity.
Arts, Media & Culture News with 'tude
Arts, Media & Culture News with 'tude
… it’s worth recalling this post about poetry, fakery, cultural theft, and stolen identity.
I wonder why America has gone for so long without a Nobel lit prize. The last was 23 years ago. What happened to previous winners like Sinclair Lewis, Eugene O’Neill, Pearl Buck, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, Saul Bellow, and Toni Morrison (the last winner.)
One senses that American society and culture has been gradually sterilized.
Has the intellectual, political, and moral climate in the USA has become so narrow and one-dimensional that it makes it less likely that we can produce writers with the breadth and depth to be really great? From a political perspective, could a Harold Pinter, Dario Fo, Jean-Paul Sartre, or Günter Grass even exist in the USA? Or who might have the culture and humanism to match the breadth of Mario Vargas Llosa, Elias Canetti, Heinrich Böll, Pablo Neruda, or Samuel Beckett?
We were once a country that could produce Steinbecks and Faulkerners, but no longer. Even Steinbeck faced sustained harassment from the FBI that very likely harmed him and his work. Cultural sterilization creates a uniform and obedient society that eventually becomes artless and stupid.