Uploaded to Tale Foundry’s YouTube channel on October 24, 2024, here’s an interesting perspective on Fantasy during the bygone era of Pulp Magazines, and, today: “The Death of Pulp Fantasy”. Though I disagree with some of the author’s opinions, the video is nevertheless more than worthy of viewing and contemplation.
Here it is:
Granting the validity of the video’s very title (validity I grant partially) I’m surprised that the video doesn’t discuss the advent and impact of communications technology, specifically television, the internet, and particularly the “civilizational universal solvent” that goes by the moniker “social media” – in terms of focus and long-term contemplation, on both an individual and collective basis. For this, I strongly suggest the late Neil Postman’s books Amusing Ourselves to Death, and, Technopoly, and Nicholas Carr’s The Shallows.
Check out this video of Postman…
…and these two of Carr…