....Avoid adverbs in speech and writing
I guess that explains the difference in older jazz and present day rap.
Past analytic applied mathematics focused on the arguments to develop a handful of measurables to best define physical systems. Today, physicists are more focused upon probabilities and computer generated discrete mathematics.
In music, harmony, melody, rhythm, with analytic variation in individual and group efforts described musical talent. Today, all that seems to be missing, substituted by rhythm and profanity alone.
Past writing skills emphasized the use of transitive verbs, adjectives and adverbs to paint pictures of meanings. Today younger writers are reduced to profanity and oversimplified truisms to express simple ideas. provided they can write "cursive".
150 years ago an educated American, even if only educated in studying the Bible and a few books, could advance by building upon which 3-5 things at a time were pondered, to more advanced mature thinking. Today, we appear to have a society mesmerized by having their minds tickled by the same 3-5 things repetitively, without ever advancing to more mature thoughts.
Very well and accurately put, imho. Thanks.