A bunch of crows outside my window

If the internet was around in the 1930's would Adolph Hitler have come to power?

And yet to think that technology is permanent--as a business model that is (Amazon & Google, social media stuff like Facebook, Twitter etc)--is a kind of delusion.

Things will change eventually, our dependence on sugar and cornstarch will evolve into other dependencies.

It's tempting to believe that one's political action, which in the case of this writer is one of a loathing of present political circumstances so intense it often tumbles into disbelief, has no real-world consequence. But nothing could be further from the truth. Even a Republican like Barack Obama is now outraged by the current state of affairs!

So what role can literature play in this present age? If there is still such a thing as literature that is. 

Literature is always made in some sort of unpopular cavern, only later rising to some small height, then rising once again incrementally in the minds of faithful future readers who imagine that the literature they so admire was made in a golden age.