Ok, you're going to do a tv show on the "secrets of genius" and sell it to sponsors. First, you gotta have celebrities and people of proven success --- meaning monetized success -- and the two are interrelated before you can attract advertisers. Then you can have them babble the most insipid banalities -- all the cliches everyone has come to regard as their own brilliant insights and presto, you know the secret to genius. What junk! This only gives further evidence of the trend away for art as an intellectual and cultural activity to art as sheer entertainment. I detest the fusion of high and low. The end result: all low. Genius, creativity, and such approbations are culturally constructed terms to honor the best practitioners in varied fields. The genius is simply one who matches the cultural template and when that template is itself defined by entertainment values, the gig is up. Our culture is in steep decline. Rather, I should say our pan-cultural visuality is in decay. A new vision of culture is emerging (as it is always evolving) and its geniuses look like dopes and misfits, failures, cranks and crackpots, when measured by today's cultural template. wc ----- Original Message ---- From: joseph berg <[email protected]> To: aesthetics-l <[email protected]> Sent: Fri, March 25, 2011 4:00:22 AM Subject: New PBS series on creative genius
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