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Should Writing Be Reserved only for the Intelligentsia

The literary industry has undergone massive changes that allow virtually anyone to write and publish a book, thus upending the industry and saturating it with poorly written, shodden books. Consequently, this has turned the industry on its head; driving many good and legitimate writers out the business and replacing them with a host of trash venders. These dashing, new merchants peddle sleaze and anything else that would earn them a buck for the day.

This has been very disheartening and discouraging for many writers—and many have bolted the industry, walking away paupers and in tatters; thus, the question that must be asked and answered satisfactorily is this: Who should be writing books, and how should the industry be guarded against publication of poorly written books that fall way below the standard?

But free speech must be protected; therefore, people are free to write and publish whatever books they want to write and promote out there because moral concerns are largely a thing of the past. Obviously, writing is basic to societal development and has been handled differently through the millennia. And quite to the contrary, some societies did not develop the civilization tool of writng at all.

How Writing Works in Non-Literary Societies

There should be some kind of government oversight and regulation of published books to ensure that they meet a certain standard; but who is going to that? In an anything-goes world, where moral rules and literary regulations are of trifling value; for far too many, the only thing that matters is making that crucial buck for the day.  There is no question that writing is one of the most important institutions in a society; however, many civilizations of the past that did not develop writing: Rather, they appointed special men, such as West Africa’s Griots and the Celtics’ Bards, to transmit the culture’s story from one generation to another.

In essence, in non-literary civilizations, the Griots and Bards played the all-important role of writers and transmitted the main elements of the society from one generation to another—and they had incredible memory! They had to in order to pull off such an incredible feat; however, what this reflects is the critical value of writing in society. It’s the means by which important information is treated and transmitted, but who should be doing that—intelligent people…the intelligentsia?

The New Writing Economy

Well, it seems as if the Digital Revolution has answered that question in a resoundingly clear manner; but in doing so, it has created another problem: A sprawling trash heap of shoddily written books, thus lowering the standard and trashing writing itself, altogether. Although it may seem that way, the new self-publishing millionaires belie that stream of thought: Who should be writing books—savvy, self-publishing writes with a flair for marketing seem like the most obvious and correct answer to this question.

But for all intents and purposes, you may not agree with what seems like such a highly oversimplified, overgeneralized answer to the question. Perhaps, rephrasing the question might elicit a different thought stream, and therefore, a more correct answer. Who should write books for society to relax and enjoy– intelligent people…the intelligentsia? Well, this needs to be cleared up before going any further: Intelligent people and the intelligentsia are two distinctly different things.

The intelligentsia are all intelligent, educated people; they are writers, academicians, artists, lawyers, politicians, and the like: They are   intelligent, but they may not belong to the intelligentsia. Intelligent people are just that—intelligent. Success in the digital world of books requires much more than academic understanding of things; it’s a unique tool and knowledge mix that you must possess in order to ultimately enjoy writing; this unique assortment of skills and abilities is called the New Digital Economy.

In the light of all this information, should writing be done exclusively by the intelligentsia, for whom money is largely not a problem? The obvious and logical answer is no. In a broader sense, literary work should be largely executed by people who have something meaningful to say, that needs to be said, and can make a living publishing and marketing it. In other words, only those who are bent on mastering the new digital book market should be writing books. Because writing is so time-consuming and all-encompassing, merely writing books will not be satisfying if the writer is ignored in the marketplace. Thus, the writer should aim his writing at a particular group of people in the marketplace.

Intelligence and Self-Publishing Success

While a high level of intelligence is needed for smooth, seamless, constructive writing; mere intelligence may not sell enough books to pay your bills. You must write books that aim at a particular group of people, but you must also aim at as broad a group as possible, such as Spiritually Famished People, the Idolatry of Sports, Empty People on the Wrong Track, and People Looking for Themselves. These topics underscore the core problems that society faces today and for which urgent solutions are frantically sought. At best, they are a fine starting point for writers serious about making money.

These topics, somewhat offbeat, reflect my understanding of things, but notice that they are relatively broad and can be expanded even more; for example, the topic, The Idolatry of Sports, is a comparatively wide topic and can be stretched even more. This covers a very large cosmos of people who are nuts about sports and would be lost if they couldn’t get it.In many ways, the audience under these broad topics is the whole world; but what they do is that they give you much flexibility and room to maneuver your topics and writing. Contrarywise, if you get uncomfortable with broad audiences, you can narrow them to suit your writing style; doing so allows you to capitalize on, and utilize, your particular expertise in spiritual hunger and meaningless living.

Why Bother with Writing Books

People with societally reinforcing powers; at the right time, and with the right assortment of technological skills are on the cusp of breaking out in the New Self-Publishing Economy. Success in writing and self-publishing requires becoming an expert, by striving to be the best at what you do and putting out maximum effort at it over time. Because your audience is wide, it gives you great flexibility in handling your writing; as time goes by, you can use the experience that you gleanover the years. Drawing on your readers’ comments, clues, and insights; your writing will naturally improve, evolving over time.

Whether writing comes natural to you or not, you will not continue writing unless you have a genuine and raging passion for it. Writing is a thought thread mill: It is a splendid form of thought exercise; as you practice the craft, you get better and better at it. And after a while, it becomes such a friend; life becomes difficult without it. Writing—oh, what a friend! But it only becomes a friend to those who really love it and learn how to use it to pay their bills: Writing, writing, writing; what a friend!

Moral Decay and the Destructive Male Sperm

Human society has always leaned on the morality pillar for sustenance and support in the constantly shifting elements of society; the foundational principle of right and wrong has always been the central spine of society during its growth and development phase. What is quite significant here is that morality has not always been central to societal development—it has only been significant during its growth and development phase. And that is what produces the growth and development, but it never lasts because of the rust of lust and moral decay.

During society’s decline and stagnation phase, lawlessness and falsehood seem to overtake its moral focus and crush it to pieces—and isn’t that what is happening in the West, and in particular, in the United States today? Lawlessness and moral decay are rapidly outpacing sustainable growth and development. Seemingly, everybody is jittery; wondering where this next stop is going to be. Life in the United States today is as certain as the next moment: Homes, washed away into the sea, makes life look like a surreal museum and a concert on the moon.

One might ask, “What causes this mysterious vertical spin, up and down?— Why is it like that?” It is like that because of the nature of society: Good and evil; thus, opposite forces are always at work, in some capacity or other. One of the reasons that evil seems to overtake good is that evil is a good salesman; and people tend to believe its lies that, when embraced and internalized, always destroy society.

What is particularly noticeable here is that, when society is in its growth and development phase; its rules are obeyed, and it just continues to grow and develop. It is when falsehood and resistance to natural order persist that the decline process is triggered and set in motion, and this tug of war between good and evil has dogged and damned every civilization since Adam and Eve. And today, that tug of war is having a field day in the once impassioned, Christ-promoting United States.

The Raging Culture War

In other words, the decline process is set in motion by the robust production and aggressive marketing of falsehood and unnatural behavior. And quite naturally, this leads to the marginalization and devaluation of morality. It is when morality becomes ignored and marginalized that societal decline begins to set in; in this regard, good moral rules are the unmistakable cure for every society in the chasm of doom.

One of the first symptoms of a sick and dying society are culture wars, caused by conflict injected into the society by the lies that the liberal left now promotes as new truths. These new truths usually go against the grain of what the society has traditionally believed; and more often than not, morality is not an integral part of this new truth. Generally, the people pushing these liberal ideas are usually deceived by the illusions that the master of evil uses against that society to destroy it with falsehood. However, this is not to say that the ruling society is driven by truth; except for a very few rarities, the reality of life on the earth is false; but the people in either camp don’t know this nor think so. Thus, the reality that operates on the earth is a lie, on either side of the sociopolitical spectrum—and it is false everywhere you go on the earth. Because people are told different lies about themselves and of others around them, massive culture wars

The Destructive Male Sperm

As society becomes more and more amoral and unnatural, fewer and fewer things mean anything anymore. Over time, moral standards wax increasingly meaningless; human life becomes progressively trifling; and the life of the unborn becomes like a chaff in the wind. Millions of unborn babies are systematically slaughtered under the guise of having an abortion; and millions of abortion mothers are killed on the scaffold of death, but who are the real losers here? The real losers are the innocent, unborn babies themselves and society’s members: They lose the glorious gifts that those unborn children were bringing into the world. They were viciously stopped by murderous women who immolated their children on the altar of convenience in the pub of foot-loose and fancy-living.

But the story doesn’t end there: Those babies weren’t brought forth by women alone; as moral standards drop, people wax increasingly wanton and deliberate; slinging their sperms and dropping babies here, there, and everywhere. These are the same babies that are murdered by women who could have been much more careful with themselves and who owe their babies an apology. However, it is the long arm of the male sperm that has done most of the damage that can never be undone.