Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
I can get books fast. I can find tons of books online, from new ones to classics. I can find them fast I can find them cheap. I can find a lot of physical books fast, from cheap POD to used book stores. If I want literature, from classics to trash, I've got a lot of ways to get it fast and cheap.
Iv'e wondered if this affects the value of literature – and other media - but not necessarily in the way we may expect.
Sometimes it seems people hate the unemployed. I've written about it before, and despite my other ranting and raving, it's never quite cathartic enough to purge me of the pernicious disgust I feel over the sheer dislike people have for those without jobs. I've mulled this over again and again – and amongst my many mulling I think I found at least one reason people look down on the unemployed.
They fear being like them.
I recall when I was first called an "Internet Personality." It was at a convention, and that was how I was described in the program booklet. That was quite a few years ago, and it seems that over time in the age of the internet, megamedia, and 24-hour news cycles the world is filled with "personalities."
Personalities are everywhere. News personalities. Internet personalities. Writers are personalities. Colorful local personalities. It seems some of the most successful (or at least famous) people we know are, well . . . personalities.