back in the day when the dinosaurs roamed the halls of education and the arts community there was a notion that people had some kind of skill innately within them... it could be a builder, creative, good with math, great story tellers or actor/actresses... and there was a celebration of culture that had its roots in the "classics"... either language and the poetry of Byron or Shelly or the music of Brahms, Beethoven or Chopin and Bach or the art of Da'Vinci, Michelangelo, Rembrandt of Van Gogh, and so forth... in my case it was the latter... my dear mother made us listen to the classics on vinyl while my father pondered life while listening to Cash, Armstrong and Hank Williams Sr... it was important to have the "renaissance man" vibe going... to taste from all cultures, languages, technologies, arts, humanities... when I finally had the means to go to university that was my goal... in order to be a better communicator by being able to see so many viewpoints... what makes me distraught today is that this new "gen Z" does not care about the "culture" of the arts... only what makes money... so things like music are not what artists or the public want to hear but only what corporate executives whom don't have a shred of understanding of music, making decisions only based on monetary profits and what sells... the same for arts... many youth today never have any real inkling of the years it takes to be proficient in an art form nor do they care about the actual art form and the story it is trying to tell nor the emotion it is evoking... I have a dear music friend whom stated that kids today would rather use a concert of art experience as a means to showcase they are cool or have been somewhere by video taping their experience like they would while at a local eatery showing off the plate of goodies they are eating... its a status symbol to get likes on their personal social media platform... if find that wickedly disrespectful to the artists of any genre... but I certainly understand that these same "youth" are now more concerned about being an "influencer" on social platforms that they can monetize... it is getting to the point that youth do not care at all on mass about any arts at all... and if they do they are using it as a platform for monetization and not something that was supposed to evoke an exchange of thoughts based on someone bearing out their soul... so for what it is worth the rest of us poor sods eking our artist endeavors we have begun to realize no one gives a shite about the cultural of the arts... but I got to tell for us its what keeps us sane and is a type of deep spiritual healing that the youth of tomorrow will forget ever existed... so here is a raised glass to repeatedly playing your favorite vinyl or visited your favorite art gallery for the "um-teenth" time...
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