Publisher Michael Krüger's Benediction, June, 2013
"I have no explanation for the fact that modern societies have invested tons of money into schools and universities only to find that horrible books are much more loved than the good ones."
This was probably not the first time that Krüger mentioned the decay of the book world. Why didn't some magazine, some reporter pick up on this? Why didn't the better writers of Europe rally to Krüger's defense? Why didn't some TV station make a two-hour program around a panel of European intellectuals? Krüger tried to make a fuss about something that needs answering. TV programming is 98% shit, why not have something nutricious?
Because. if Krüger is right, those with the least sensitivity to language are dominating language. That means the best writers, the best publishers, best reviewers are being trashed. It raises, in turn, another question: should people be offered language at all??
It remains, then, for good writers, sensitive readers to ask what shoiuld be done? Should someone start a bomb school for discontented writers and publishers?
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