"Don't take it lying down"

I'm really liking Tumblr because it's easier to post links and photos. It's limiting, too, something like a cross between Twitter and live journal, if I had to make a crude comparison, which I do, but it's just so much easier to post photos there (for me; this may not be true for those of you who find posting photos on lj easy) that I can post a photo a day JUST BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE IT and the hardest part is deciding which one.

I'm on Tumblr here.

Today I posted a quote from Iain Banks taken from a short interview up on Orbit Books blog with Simon Morden.

The quote I quoted:

I just think it's basically snobbery which makes us separate entertainment and art and denigrate one while worshipping the other. I also don't mean to imply that all art/entertainment is of the same worth; it isn't. All I want to argue is that what we are faced with when we confront the vast array of creative cultural output that we currently call art and entertainment is not as crudely binary in nature as those two words suggest but rather a spectrum, and an untidy one at that, with junk and gems distributed throughout.

I think all that any of us can do is produce the best stuff we're capable of producing – preferably without either feeling ashamed of it or (even worse in a way) working on projects our hearts aren't really in but which pursue anyway because we feel they'll garner a better class of praise just through their supposedly more serious or refined nature. And, I repeat, keep banging away at this very subject; don't take it lying down, don't accept this is just the way things have to be. We have to challenge the authorised version of our imposed cultural hierarchy.