>>5146366It's not about consumer vs. creator of consoom goods, the reason why art is shit today is that everything but this dualism has been removed from the scene. There used to be a difference between works of art that enriched your life and escapist shit that you use to mindlessly waste a couple hours of your time to relax or gets your rocks off. There was art that was made to really speak of something, to show what you see, how you see the world, things that the artist found beauty in. Now this is entirely gone.
The whole "high culture" subscene has been systematically destroyed by general stupidity and lack of humanity, money laundering, nepotism and politics, so average people have become naturally resistant to the idea of watching a "high culture" thing, like a movie that isn't hollywood crap, and they will hate contemporary because it's plain shit. For the vast majority of people who do not conform with this and support the avant-garde or "higher" culture it's just about feeling smarter or 2deep4u because they "see" the meaning in the spray of diarrhea on the canvas.
Even the "true art" which was meant to have a communicative nature has been sort of commodified as some kind of fashion statement about your intellect. And I am sure this existed before, as art always has been somewhat fashionable, like hanging a painting by Picasso in your home meant you were "up to date" and "modern" and things like that. It's all about commodification and sadly it's inevitable because the balance you need to maintain when it comes to showing the world a pure unsullied act of communication is so inherently fragile.
Honestly I think people are changing, like literally their brains are changing in chemistry or something, that they have become unable to really feel or be receptive beyond basic fleeting emotions like the sadness/anger when the bad guy kicks a puppy. There's no more of the transformative nature that art used to have. Chicken and egg but I think it's people first.
