@mahgister,
"Incredible..... Without history people are pathetically lost about societal issues...How easy it is to manipulate the brain of someone knowing no history....How difficult it is to try that with an educated man...."
This is the point. History itself is under attack, along with truth.
How many of us are familiar with the old germ v terrain theory debate?
And why not? Could it be that the pharmaceuticals might be less than favourable to anything that challenges germ theory?
Education can be a wonderful roadmap for the journey ahead, but it’s only that.
No more than a map.
Better than nothing for sure. Otherwise you are at great risk of being manipulated. Usually for the goal of increasing someone’s profits.
In any case musical literacy matters less and less today due to technology. It didn’t even matter that much in the days of the Beatles. Remember they couldn’t even read or write music, just chords.
Luckily for them they had George Martin and they still had to build songs up by constant rehearsal.
I suspect the way most songs are assembled today are quite different. And a different set of skills are required. The only thing that counts is the end result. Everything is geared towards that goal.
Sales.
In that way nothing has changed. Today’s artists are still doing what Bing, Frank, Nat, Elvis, Buddy, and the Beatles were all trying to do - make money.
I don’t believe any of them were trying to make art that would last even 50 years. But they did.
Yet who knows what tomorrow’s audience will be into? Artists like authors are also prone to the vagaries of fashion.
W Somerset Maugham was the best selling author in the world in the 40s and 50s. How many read him now?
Maybe it's not about the decline of musical standards after all?
Maybe it never was?
Maybe instead it's only more about the decline of our generation?
"Incredible..... Without history people are pathetically lost about societal issues...How easy it is to manipulate the brain of someone knowing no history....How difficult it is to try that with an educated man...."
This is the point. History itself is under attack, along with truth.
How many of us are familiar with the old germ v terrain theory debate?
And why not? Could it be that the pharmaceuticals might be less than favourable to anything that challenges germ theory?
Education can be a wonderful roadmap for the journey ahead, but it’s only that.
No more than a map.
Better than nothing for sure. Otherwise you are at great risk of being manipulated. Usually for the goal of increasing someone’s profits.
In any case musical literacy matters less and less today due to technology. It didn’t even matter that much in the days of the Beatles. Remember they couldn’t even read or write music, just chords.
Luckily for them they had George Martin and they still had to build songs up by constant rehearsal.
I suspect the way most songs are assembled today are quite different. And a different set of skills are required. The only thing that counts is the end result. Everything is geared towards that goal.
Sales.
In that way nothing has changed. Today’s artists are still doing what Bing, Frank, Nat, Elvis, Buddy, and the Beatles were all trying to do - make money.
I don’t believe any of them were trying to make art that would last even 50 years. But they did.
Yet who knows what tomorrow’s audience will be into? Artists like authors are also prone to the vagaries of fashion.
W Somerset Maugham was the best selling author in the world in the 40s and 50s. How many read him now?
Maybe it's not about the decline of musical standards after all?
Maybe it never was?
Maybe instead it's only more about the decline of our generation?