Election 2020

[Bob Butler 54]

(08-16-2020, 02:05 PM)RadianMay Wrote: I agree with you that civic education is severely lacking. Everywhere I go, it does seem to me that this country is a cultural vacuum, with people equating hedonistic entertainment with culture and vacuous expression with art. I too fall prey to this mindless drivel, losing hours of a day to reading and watching these things when I could be appreciating more intellectually stimulating media.

I think all through time there is a complaint that the younger people are seeking hedonistic art, unlike the supposedly intellectually superior elders. I tend to see it as taste. The elders will always tut tut the young.

The young are just growing up in an uglier world. They see the ugliness. Their art reflects that this ugliness makes the world go round. I would like to respect the old arts of the awakening. People like Bob Dylan and the Beatles had a real message in their time, at least when they were not proclaiming that she loves you, yeh, yah, yah. Today? It is as if the young were celebrating the ugliness. I don’t expect that this reduces their cynicism any.