[ConorMacNessa]

Indeed they were - we need another Renaissance right now - the Human Race, IMHO is overachieving in producing gizmos and underachieving in producing lasting works - whether in Art or Music.

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms will be with us forever - their works are preserved on every kind of media we have been able to devise.

Unfortunately, the garbage now being generated is preserved right along side it. Will the material now being generated survive after our lives? Perhaps, but what will our descendants think of us fore producing it?

Perhaps our time will be regarded as a second "Dark Age." Technology advances, but not civilization.


"Dia shábháil ar fad anseo!"

Genuflectimus non ad principem sed ad Principem Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[Publius]

Art and music were created in those days at the behest of an aristocracy not too far removed from the feudal era. The leveling spirit of democracy pushes against that. Art is about “man”, not “men”.