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Eulalia Johnson's avatar

Right on target. Superbly reasoned and the righteous indignation is a tonic and inspirational.

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Leo Vaughn's avatar

Great thoughts here. I recently saw a video of some "performance art" in which a guy stacked some buckets of sand and waited for them to fall over. Once they fell, there was a pause, and then the audience started clapping, like, "oh, that was the art!" It was appalling in its banality, and the audience was composed entirely of sheep.

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Richard Kuslan's avatar

I have seen things like that as well. Americans must learn to boo.

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Nani Lani's avatar

Does anyone else think singing doesn't sound as "good?" Maybe I'm getting old, but vocal music seems to be lacking today.

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Richard Kuslan's avatar

There are marvelous singers. But they are never seen or heard on any television programming. I was thrilled to hear that marvelous operatic tenor open one of President Trump's rallies with Nessun Dorma -- a rare sighting on a mass media program, which was of course not mainstream, and demonstrating YES AMERICANS LISTEN TO OPERA. You are, I think, being very polite in saying it is lacking, because it stinks. :-) I do not hesitate any longer to say it.

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

IMHO the beginning of the nihilistic destruction of the arts by the left dates back at least to 1910, and the advent of Marxist "Modernism".

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Richard Kuslan's avatar

Yes, you are spot on, there. There were rumblings even in the 1870s. I will delve into this in the book I've begun to write on the subject.

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Rightful Freedom's avatar

A book about it all badly needs to be written. But I'm afraid it would not be published by a big publisher or reviewed in the big newspapers or magazines.

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Richard Kuslan's avatar

Thank you. I would choose to avoid those in any case. A smaller, more adroit and aware publisher is what I'll be looking for. And maybe that publisher will be looking for me, too.

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