10-15-2016, 04:43 PM
(This post was last modified: 10-15-2016, 04:51 PM by Eric the Green.)
(10-14-2016, 10:57 PM)gabrielle Wrote:(10-14-2016, 10:36 PM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Mindless Entertainment:
"Keeping Up With the Kardashians"
"Real Wives of ___________"
"Modern Family"
"Naked and Afraid"
"Ultimate Fighting"
etc ...
"The Apprentice."
A small beginning of a good list..........
Maybe what we need is a bit more snobbery. Or at least, some sense of what culture could be that stimulates the imagination instead of dumbing us down. As most people here know, I think culture has an objective component. To think otherwise is to accept the lowest as the same as the highest quality. I disagree. There is good and bad culture, even if there isn't unanimous agreement on which is which in every case. A nation that can't tell the difference is severely deprived. Americans have been generally deprived for a long time. And it shows in the kinds of decisions we make. And now we have post-modernism that claims it's all relative and subjective and everything's the same.
Maybe our culture and education is worse now than ever, but no, there was never a time when it was that much better. But it could be. America is a young civilization. Before our current age was born in the 1890s, we had no libraries or concert halls; no city beautiful movements. Ask David McCullough, who described this. We were the frontier. It takes time in a country that admires the "wild west" to become civilized.