The main difference I notice is that the music was actually pretty damn good. Now it barely qualifies as music.
We went from Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton and James Brown and Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to ... at best, some pop singer with a decent voice and a lot of autotune, but mostly garbage rap with repetitive "sprinkler" beats that isn't even interesting rhythmically.
Hell, even early hip hop wasn't completely terrible.
Note: modern mainstream white musicians aren't much better.
Is any music produced today, or any building built today, or book written, something that will still be loved in 200 years, like Mozart's 40th Symphony, St. Paul's or Ivanhoe?
It seems that modernity is incapable of producing anything good. And obviously, I know that only the good stuff from 200 years ago survived, but somehow, I don't see the Sydney Opera House being loved 200 years from now, or anything really.
The Sydney Opera House will have rotted away in less than 100 due to it being built with modern cement and rebar. It will basically have to be rebuilt several times over just to exist.
The main difference I notice is that the music was actually pretty damn good. Now it barely qualifies as music.
We went from Louis Armstrong and Lionel Hampton and James Brown and Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder to ... at best, some pop singer with a decent voice and a lot of autotune, but mostly garbage rap with repetitive "sprinkler" beats that isn't even interesting rhythmically.
Hell, even early hip hop wasn't completely terrible.
Note: modern mainstream white musicians aren't much better.
Is any music produced today, or any building built today, or book written, something that will still be loved in 200 years, like Mozart's 40th Symphony, St. Paul's or Ivanhoe?
It seems that modernity is incapable of producing anything good. And obviously, I know that only the good stuff from 200 years ago survived, but somehow, I don't see the Sydney Opera House being loved 200 years from now, or anything really.
The Sydney Opera House will have rotted away in less than 100 due to it being built with modern cement and rebar. It will basically have to be rebuilt several times over just to exist.