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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
time certainly is a good garbage collector, but that alone doesn't suffice. I claim that those people, working with far inferior tools were able to produce far brighter works than anything from XX onwards. Our superior tools and remote controls only produced lazy, incompetent, crying babies fashioned as artists.
Compare the multiple recursive ornate architecture from barroque age to simplistic, barren and plain geometric waste of modernist architecture. Compare the staggering works of Bach, Beethoven and Wagner to all the rubbish noise or background to movie scenes our time has produced. Compare exquisite renascentist paintings to the abstract sketches by infants from lucrative modern day art galleries.
We're so terribly lousy our contributions could be erased with no consequence to the history of arts... perhaps that's why we keep trying to create new expression media, like games or movies, and call ourself the greatest of greatest...
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I'd have to disagree with this. The capacity for human imagination and longing is endless. It doesn't matter when we are born, there will be geniuses, there will be talent and some of it will last and should last. We may produce more 'things' in this day and age, but there are still many talents and creations that are awe inspiring.
I am probably not the right person to name names, but I'll start with Joshua Bell. That's just one example. I am pretty sure there are other, including in literature (although my idea of genius there, is BOUND to differ from anyone elses for the most part.)