Kat Rosenfield

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

But I also, you know, over the summer I read David Copperfield by Charles Dickens for the first time.

And I guess, you know, the thing that I would say, um,

maybe this is where we could still find common ground on cultural issues is to go back to things that are considered great books.

They are considered great books for a reason.

And, you know, for a long time, so much of what was being produced was downstream of things like, you know, either classic novels that everybody had read or stories everybody had read in the Bible, things people had read in Shakespeare.

We used to have a kind of a common understanding of

you know, where these narratives come from.

And they would ring certain bells and you would say, I recognize that.

I recognize that theme.

I recognize this type of character from other stories that I've consumed.

We've become kind of rootless.

I think this is very much true as creators that oftentimes

You have people who are writing stories who are coming from a context where, like, they don't actually read that much.

They haven't read, you know, the great books.

They haven't read the Bible.

They're not familiar with the stories that came before.

And so they're creating something that's not in conversation with the rest of culture.