[Fester Chugabrew]

Who determines the fine line between noise and music? Art and rubbish? Great literature and pap?

Well, the list above is from a professor of liberal arts, and to my reckoning it’s a good list. I can only hope to be as well-read. Here is the thing: technology is making us lazy. Sound bytes instead of sound books. We are wired for deeper things, but hanker for pottage.

[DoodleBob]

It is a fair question. Who is the "musician" - a classically trained pianist who can't improvise, or a self-taught jazz whiz who can't read music...or the illiterate punker who puts on an awesome live show?

Technology facilitates laziness; it's up to us whether we acquiesce or not. And, truthfully, if a smaller percentage of society reads the classics but that same laziness-inducing technology give us FR and greater awareness of govt evil and a greater proportion of Deplorables, I'd be ok with that tradeoff.