Hi Billy, On Apr 20, 2012, at 11:01 AM, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>> All of this said, one of my heroes, Henri Saint-Simon , was addicted to >> cheap novels >> and was Dostoevsky himself. Maybe I am being too judgmental, but maybe not. >> What explains some people's fascination with trash fiction ? There would >> seem to >> be some sort of lesson worth learning, if the answer could be found out. The lesson is that people love narratives. There's a reason most of the greatest books were novels, rather than treatises. People consume junk because great food is too expensive (in some measure of time/effort/psychological cost). Figure out how to reduce the cost of creating and experiencing a great narrative, and you can drive junk out of the market... -- Ernie P. -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org
