Classical music IS “classical” because there is an objective, external to human definition, standard for “good music”.
When light shines in the darkness, darkness flees.
I’m more and more convinced that the urban culture is simply an anti-culture, opposed to all standards of civilization that are based on God’s law.
Well put, sir. So much of today’s Common Culture is a war against eternal truths and the Almighty Who gave them.
“Doonesbury” once attempted to lampoon the use of classical music as loiterer repellent, where an Afro dude comes bopping into a record shop & asks, “Yo man, that be da “Trout Quintet” you blastin’ outside? Da one in A Major, D. 667? Ol’ Franz Schubert, man, he my DAWG!!”
Garry Trudeau, what else is expected?
Sadly I’d have to say it is a culture. While anti-authority, its pro civilization and dependent on mass consumerism like most of America. Its civil society is weak but that is a direct result of the welfare state. You want to see an anti-culture look to the middle east where they are actively trying to destroy civilization.