But where would we be without all those mistakes we may or may not have made? They ARE our memories. It’s what made the given experience what it was and left it’s mark on us. For better or worse.
True of course, but it’s good to avoid projecting one’s nostalgia for the past onto today’s cultural products. Shakespeare was good, better than anything since, Oscar Wilde was good and Louis Armstrong too. All of them better than Jimmy Page, that’s for sure!
The promoters of cultural products aim for the lowest common denominator, people in the music business are not Eastern European Jews as before but highly educated accountants and MBAs who know how to calculate their marketing moves with near-scientific precision, and as our educational system produces less educated less well-rounded people, as the economy promotes more of the lower class people, that lowest common denominator just gets lower. Who listens, who knows how listen to opera or even operetta today?