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maybe we as a species need to move past the idea that some of what was "good" ten or twenty or thirty or forty years ago

is still "good" now

good is a moving target, quality changes

Dickens is impenetrably dense and unrealistically plot-convenient now

is it "good"? uh, a hundredsomething years back, sure, it was fuckin' fantastic

it's crap now

move on