Why Modern Fiction Is Losing Its Soul (And Why I Wrote Frictionless)
Overview The decline of modern fiction is an economic reflection of consumer behavior: readers increasingly demand frictionless, trope-stacked narratives that require zero cognitive labor. By prioritizing instant dopamine hits and performative aesthetics over prose density, audiences incentivize the algorithmic homogenization of storytelling, accelerating the atrophy of deep attention and genuine narrative empathy. Is the reader […]