I Have Random Toughts

I don't think too many people here will take this one on. Deep thoughts in shallow places often run aground. Art cycles through phases of popularity, like music. Culture traditionally moved slowly, but as trade and transportation improved so did communication and began globalization. Telecommunications coupled with cyber power are accelerating and homogenizing culture. This really upsets traditionalists like radically conservative religion adherents. Change comes faster and faster. My dad says his grandmother in the 1950's would say "Oh my dear, I don't know what it's all coming to." Fifty years later I am born. Our hurdling ahead now endangers the natural world's very existence as we knew it. Music, art, distinct cultures (like Tibet) and our natural world in their classic forms are highly treasured, but are also going away. Hold tight to what you've got.

I may be a traditionalist, but the problem is not only that I see the quality of art going plummeting (this is just a personal opinion after all), but also the attitude towards it. It is used as a way to feel different. Art should be a way of expressing our feelings, dreams, nightmares, and make universal what is personal. Art should build bridges. I don't ser it happening today.

Art has become, as everything else, a product, and it is bought and sold. This is not new, painters and composers created paintings and music for kings and enjoyed the royal favour, but at least some of them, those whose name has not been forgotten, craved for beauty toó.

Perhaps art and music are still reflecting, as before, the vanguard's direction of the morphing of our society's collective vision, and we just don't like where it's going. It may be disturbing to our security cravings, but not a departure from what these mediums bring us.

I think we've reached critical mass on our collective personal space. People are not building bridges, we are building our own protective shells instead, because everything is getting into our face.

I wonder if that has to do with loneliness in many of our cultures- loss of many constants have created vacuums and a desperate need once again to belong and define ourselves.

How interesting! I think some art has been brought to popularity too quickly and easily without the usual angst or passion, so this feel ingenuine.

So the collective has taken the cheap version, and now we are starving? I think many may be realizing our current lack of substance.I think there is hope.

Maybe because everything is made on the cheap in China, our whole consciousness has lost creativity and this on the cheap in China is becoming more than our monetary drive, but is invading our very cultural soul.

So do you think the new cultures are shaped by passionate individuals who honestly believe in their art?

@dannys384. Agree with you,building toó many shells and too few bridges.

There are many reasons. The los of religious feeling, which was a confort for lonely souls, the weakening of family ties, the loss of the feeling of community in cities...as these groups do not work any more we need to create others, much more unstable and fake.

@flowerinthemorning We often hear that this is the golden era of individualism, but I don't believe it. We are very much divided in groups. Now there are few true artists and many sheep that want to believe in a group

An ugly art as a mirror image of am ugly society? I understand it. But it becomes a vicious circle.