Why have the arts (poetry,art, music, plays) been relegated to amusements?

Question

Someone I trust asked this same question...when, and why, have these things become a separate part of life?

What can we do to bring them back into the mainstream of importance?

Answer 1

thank TV,video games, and internet. The average americans attention span is very low these days. I think if you are a parent, you should not let your child watch much TV or other media. If all of the sudden , every TV and computer blew up on earth, after about a week, people would be tring new things and forget about it.

In the middle ages, plays were all the rage. Thank Pop culture for ruining the earth and reality TV. I think kids need to be encouraged early on to enjoy the "arts". Its really creative. Watching a sitcom probably kills brain cells. Lol.True art is rare these days.

Answer 2

Legalize weed.

Edit:

I don't differentiate between art and life. I have a very deconstructionist view of "art".

Art is in the eye of the beholder. The way we perceive and interpret things has much more to do with the essence of art than any ability to arrange sounds or colors on a canvas. This completely accounts for why people have very different tastes in the arts. For example, what is untolerable noise to one person, is a source of euphoria to another. It is not that there is some universal definition of beauty, but rather that each of of has our own--and it is our ability to find our own beauty in everything in our daily lives that makes us all artists and the universe a masterpiece.

Answer 3

I do not think the arts are gone. I live in mid USA in a middle size town.  We have great art venues. Art Centers. Symphony, concert halls, arenas etc. The local paper shows 12 events this weekend.

You must support the arts.  I think it is still important.  As I grow older, it takes me a while to accept the new. but what I rejected a few years ago has developed into much more.

Answer 4

Don't blame some group or collective mindset for diminishing the importance of art.  Blame yourself for not celebrating and promoting it enough.  YOU can touch hundred of lives with a positive, encouraging message about art.

Are you doing everything you can to promote art?  Really?  Or are you waitng for someone else to do it and crying when they dont?

Don't answer that questions for me.  Answer it for yourself.