What if cultural snobbery, so effectively cast off over the past decade, wasn’t a waste of time? What if it did actually uphold certain standards? What if – faced with a future dominated by social media advertainment and AI-generated content – it’s our only hope?
You could argue that culture has been on an intellectual downward spiral since the Victorian era, when mass-market literature lowered the collective brow.
Ever since, we’ve adapted to art in increasingly populist, democratic and easily digestible forms – cinema, pop music, television, the internet – much of it reflective of new technologies.
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