...in shaping society and culture...

“…the writer’s/artist’s role in shaping society and culture.”

The Society Culture Machine Cycle is thus: society informs the culture produced by the society which then informs the society that produced it, ad infinitum, until we all die when the sun finally inflates into a giant and deflates into a singularity. And even then, maybe we’d already colonized a few planets here and there and somewhere out there in the Small Magellanic Cloud is a printout of this very sentence, still living on a billion years after the fact. And of course, it’s not just the writers and artists who produce and is informed by culture. Everyone produces and informs culture.

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