'either or' Erik, that's what I said. You said you have YouTubes, then you are already either, that's all I'm saying.
I am talking about trends, about change, not laying down rules. To me photos have replaced paintings, film has replaced plays, live streaming is replacing novels but these are trends not that the theatre is dead, or painting is dead or novels are dead.
Computer games are now the major art form in the world, interactive, global, instant, already 3D, this is a trend, just as this poetry forum is a trend. Such an international instantly interactive forum simply didn't exist before the internet and before cheap and easy access to the web.
Here pedagogues are already discussing whether it is necessary to teach kids to write with pen and paper. That it would make more sense to teach them English via a keyboard. This may sound far fetched but it isn't, every kid here has an iPod or a mobile phone. People don't use longhand anymore. And so on. All about trends, nothing more. And I also repeat, it is speculation, what I see happening, I don't lay down the law, I am not a judge.
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