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Entry: Why is contemporary music so bad? Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/why_is_contemporary_music_so_bad#22078 Post contents: I recall that Richard M. Weaver addresses this sort of issue in "Ideas Have Consequences," though I think he sees it as a sort of spiritual problem rather than a cultural one. Somewhere in that book I believe he mentions the fact that things that used to be considered reflective of simple workmanship would now have to be considered museum pieces: a truly startling observation in view of th endlessly commodified spectacle of the postmodern museum. On a related note, once about a dozen years ago I made a special trek to the Metropolitan to spend some time with the Shaker exhibit, but it was closed for a "People for the American Way" event: the aptness of this would have appealed to Carl Jung, as it does to me in retrospect. Sent at: 2009 01 09