02-12-2016, 12:46 AM
I mean in general and with literature: whatever you choose to focus on. With writing, it's harder to have the time, energy, patience and concentration to make great literature, especially for young people who were born into around the clock messages, status updates and mixed levels of information so easy to access, hard to escape and more than the human brain can process at the rate society perpetually necessitates. You have to master the art of a self-induced autism to focus on anything that takes more than a few hours of solitude a day to accomplish. And even if you are away from the distractions, they still exist, and you're still in a world of maddening perceptions of racing time and endless cataclysms in the palms of your neighbors' hands. Styles and objects being juxtaposed in ever innovative ways seems the appropriate expression of this kind of culture, this culture that is all cultures. But if you want to write the great novels and plays and poetry in this expansive universe, life will pass you by real quick.