Do you agree with this analysis of the changing importance of writing?

"I write these lines at a time when the world, as it turns in this last quarter of the century, poses to a writer, with increasing clarity, a question that is fatal to all forms of artistic expression: that of futility. Of what literature once believed and aspired to be for so long—a contribution to the flourishing of humanity and its progress—not even the lyrical illusion remains."

—Romain Gary
Do you agree with this analysis of the changing importance of writing?
Do you agree with this analysis of the changing importance of writing?
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