While there is a strong argument for the publishing industry being extremely conservative and retarding progress on social reform, to put the onus on them still feels like a failure to acknowledge that it is society in general which is responsible.
People love to blame their personal problems on 'society', but when tackling problems that are actually to do with society, they prefer to break the problem down into more manageable chunks... without realising that the social structures that support those undesirable aspects remain in effect. To attack the publishing industry for being conservative is refusing or failing to realise that the majority of consumers support that view in the only language that matters - money.
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While there is a strong argument for the publishing industry being extremely conservative and retarding progress on social reform, to put the onus on them still feels like a failure to acknowledge that it is society in general which is responsible.
People love to blame their personal problems on 'society', but when tackling problems that are actually to do with society, they prefer to break the problem down into more manageable chunks... without realising that the social structures that support those undesirable aspects remain in effect. To attack the publishing industry for being conservative is refusing or failing to realise that the majority of consumers support that view in the only language that matters - money.