Kid's name is Apple.
What a nincowpoop. What a maroon.
Victor Hanson wrote recently that emerging (and in some cases lesser) arts and artists have no real learning, that no intellectual skills further the natural gifts these monkies might posess.
Martin is an idiot. The commercial arts are of little value. They may 'joke, or mock, or while away the time,' but they 'have no place except in the shadow of great art.'
Two great reads on artistic value are "Style" by Walter Raleigh (the Oxford don, not Sir Walter) and John Gardner's "On Moral Fiction."