Is this about the US? Is the US alright?
I was in a bookstore yesterday. I did have a chuckle at this self-help book called something along the lines of “How to Politely Tell People to Fuck Off”, which proudly stated to be written by a social therapist or some other Pokemon evolution of a psychologist.
Otherwise it was novels from mainstay authors, young adult stuff whose quality was undecypherable from their “my cousin knows Photoshop” covers and a bunch of pseudo-academic highly specific texts from local self-published authors.
I was disheartened to see that the native minority language section keeps shrinking, especially among children’s stuff. And while I was looking at that I also noticed the manga section is bigger than the graphic novel section and that is bigger than US comics, which were now nonexistent. More neutral about that one.
You know very well that the US is not alright, lol
Is there a country you would consider alright?
Cue “am I out of touch” meme.
OP, it’s OK to no longer be up-to-date with the literature scene.
Is TikTok popular because it’s actually good? No, it is the children who are wrong.
This greentext is literally just right-wingers convincing each other their already-held stereotypes are true.
Wait, isn’t enshittificaion a left-wing idea?
The way I read it, this post complains about “wokization” more than enshittification.
Else why would it point out “African or Indian last names”, reviews using the word “brave”, or “books about Trump gathering dust”? Those are all right-wing memes.
All of that just sounded like ‘dumb stuff that sells books these days’ but I can definitely see where you’re coming from
I certainly could have made myself clearer to begin with.
