From: den Otter (neosapient@geocities.com)
Date: Mon Sep 28 1998 - 16:38:54 MDT
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> From: Eliezer S. Yudkowsky <sentience@pobox.com>
> Where are the da Vincis, the Rembrandts, the Bach or Mozart, the Homer or
> Shakespeare of this age? Why has modern art degenerated into a test to see
> how random or tawdry art has become, and why does modern music sound like
> noise even to the teenagers? Why are modern novels either incomprehensible,
> why is modern philosophy incomprehensible, and why is modern poetry boring?
[etc.]
Art is obviously in the eye of the beholder. That you happen to dislike
modern art (in the broadest sense of the word), doesn't mean that
it really is less inspired. For example, quality dance (techno/trance)
music is imho at least (if not more) as enjoyable and intellectually
stimulating as the best of the old masters. It's all a matter of opening
up to it (of course, drugs can help too ;-)
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