11-14-2016, 11:15 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-15-2016, 01:30 AM by Eric the Green.)
(11-13-2016, 03:01 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(11-12-2016, 06:40 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: What is really sad for me when people like Cohen pass on, is that they are not being replaced. When they are gone, they are gone. In a culture that is too dumbed down and lacks any clue of sensitivity or imagination, at least in the amount that existed before and in the sixties, such a loss is permanent. There will just not be any source for poets and troubadours and composers in Trumpland and what comes after Trump. Only reality TV and other trash. The political loss and the artistic loss seemed to converge this week for me. Hallelujah. Democracy is leaving the USA. Everybody knows.
Dylan and Jackson Browne still remain. There are no doubt others who are not household names as of yet.
If they are not household names by now, they never will be. That's the point. The younger generations today do not produce artists like Cohen and Dylan. We have been dumbed down and our culture reduced to trash. It probably can't happen, I don't think.