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.
