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E7: Low vs High Culture, legacy vs new institutions, WWE, & Lex Fridman w/ Aarthi and Sriram

"Moment of Zen"

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Is Attention Really Important in the Literary World?

I think we're conflating a few things there sure I mean one thing you're like the example you cited like a ray and Stephen King We're actually very dated so they date from the period in which there used to be what used to be called middle brow. The average Kardashian audience member couldn't read a single page much less 300 right? You know it's purely a metric of attention, but it wasn't quite as extreme as you're describing. It wasn't some anonymous Baudess Ripper author He would be reviewed by the New York Times go back and read some of his early novels They were not elite sort of thing although it was clearly straddling to different worlds.

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