No one reads anything at all so most people have developed a form of discussion in which specific references to texts/authors are considered rude to the extent that the answers would require familiarity. Talking “around the books” is preferred. Talking about “your feelings” best.
https://twitter.com/KBULTRA0/status/1349554997793599499
You’re trained this way in school anyway— you don’t get asked “how does Faulkner develop the novel” you get asked “how does Faulkner speak to contemporary discussions of race & your feelings about that discussion” etc
The concept of formal rigor, or formal innovation/development, is considered a false framing, & that “development” is a critical projection that isnt evident in the text, & that all art is basically “intuitional feelings dumps” — the curtains are blue because he felt like it.
As a Student, Reader, or Person — “you have always been valid”— there is no reason to develop yourself, any sensation of inadequacy derived from contact with Art beyond your immediate intuitive understanding is offensive because it suggests you need improvement of some sort.
This is all due to Pedagogues being cowards & folding in the face of bureaucratic pressures to “cater the school experience to the consumer”— “the customer is always right”— “you have to adapt Shakespeare for contemporary consumer demands”
I blame the dominance of Business over State.
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