The Persecution of Culture (Music is Not Dead)
Every once an a while I'll see passages in books where certain words can be replaced and the meaning stays the same, but in different domains.
In Chuck Klosterman's But What If We're Wrong, he was talking about how boxing and football have been dying off. I replaced the words "boxing" and "football" with music/art. There will always be a "village" of enthusiasts that will keep it thriving.
"Music operates on a much smaller scale, inside its own crooked version of reality, and still flourishing. It doesn't seem like it, because the average person doesn't care. Music doesn't need average people. It's not really an art anymore....It must also be noted that music's wounds were mostly self-inflicted. It's internal corruption was more damaging than its veneration of [creativity], and much of its fan base left of their own accord. Conversely, music is experiencing a different type of crisis there is a sense that the art is being taken from fans, and mostly by snooty strangers who never liked music in the first place. It will become to be seen as the persecution of a culture. This makes music akin to the Confederate flag, or Christmas decorations in public spaces, or taxpayer-supported art depicting Jesus in a tank of urine, something that becomes intractable precisely because so many people want to see eliminated. The art's [relevance in human history] would save it, and it would never go away." (187-88)
In Chuck Klosterman's But What If We're Wrong, he was talking about how boxing and football have been dying off. I replaced the words "boxing" and "football" with music/art. There will always be a "village" of enthusiasts that will keep it thriving.
"Music operates on a much smaller scale, inside its own crooked version of reality, and still flourishing. It doesn't seem like it, because the average person doesn't care. Music doesn't need average people. It's not really an art anymore....It must also be noted that music's wounds were mostly self-inflicted. It's internal corruption was more damaging than its veneration of [creativity], and much of its fan base left of their own accord. Conversely, music is experiencing a different type of crisis there is a sense that the art is being taken from fans, and mostly by snooty strangers who never liked music in the first place. It will become to be seen as the persecution of a culture. This makes music akin to the Confederate flag, or Christmas decorations in public spaces, or taxpayer-supported art depicting Jesus in a tank of urine, something that becomes intractable precisely because so many people want to see eliminated. The art's [relevance in human history] would save it, and it would never go away." (187-88)
