Tuesday, March 29, 2022

In case you wondered …

WHAT KILLED CULTURAL ASPIRATION. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Sooner or later one imagines that widespread antipathy to highbrow aspiration will have serious consequences for cultural engagement at any level. It may even have done so already. A reticence about being negative manifests itself in the familiar calls for a supposedly “objective” criticism that would in practice amount to something like advertising copy.

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