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Originally Posted by evollove
Smoked some killer hash ten minutes ago.
But what the hell.
I understand, and I love the canon without apology.
All I mean is when lists like this are made, it all seems to be the same names.
Great names.
Names that should not be forgotten.
But names that perhaps I see a little too much. That's all. A bit of tedium on my part.
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I defend it against those countless 'people's choice' lists done by the likes of GoodReads or Amazon, chock full of Ayn Rand, J.R.R. Tolkien and J.K. Rowling, but its very existence goes against pretty much everything that this current generation of intellectuals and academics charged with maintaining it appears to stand for.
The BBC faces a similar problem right now. It's attempting to redo its Civillisation series that came out in the 60s. The original is seen as one of the great achievements in tv but critics have obviously pointed to its underlying prejudices, asumptions, etc. So how do you make a programme like that now without turning it into the equivalent of a GoodReads list, and at the same time avoiding the charges levelled at the original?