it's the rise, once again, of anonymity and collective storytelling and the idea of stories being bigger than the tellers.
YESYESYES. Exactly!
It's freeing and wonderful on the one hand, but it also is scary on the other to the ones of us who want to make our living telling stories.
Indeed. I tend to think of it from an analysis standpoint--and I get excited at the annihilation of copyright law (which will obviously never REALLY happen) and the prospect of free information--but I do think it'd be a great loss if it ever really happened. If authorship was ever made irrelevant. Because there's something intimate about linking a specific human being with a story. Realizing you have a connection with the author--that they made something beautiful for you. And anonymity, while its own beautiful thing, would take that away. Or at least degrade it or change it. And it's one of my favorite things about lit.
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YESYESYES. Exactly!
It's freeing and wonderful on the one hand, but it also is scary on the other to the ones of us who want to make our living telling stories.
Indeed. I tend to think of it from an analysis standpoint--and I get excited at the annihilation of copyright law (which will obviously never REALLY happen) and the prospect of free information--but I do think it'd be a great loss if it ever really happened. If authorship was ever made irrelevant. Because there's something intimate about linking a specific human being with a story. Realizing you have a connection with the author--that they made something beautiful for you. And anonymity, while its own beautiful thing, would take that away. Or at least degrade it or change it. And it's one of my favorite things about lit.