No, I never heard of these people. I can say, however, that high culture has always been the purview of a tiny minority, and that is absolutely fine. It might feel like the number of stupid people with terrible taste is growing. But it’s not growing. We simply see them more often because of social media. The number of people who can understand and enjoy the novels of Anthony Trollope was always small. The number of those who can understand philosophy is even smaller. What changed is that reading Trollope is a superior form of entertainment because it requires a higher IQ and a better organized brain.
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Part of adapting to a world without gatekeeping is recognizing and muting, as quickly as possible, all the megaphones for trash culture in one’s newsfeed.
Fortunately, 70% or more of them can be eliminated without any thought or analysis by reflexively zapping anything with a picture of a nubile young woman attached, and/or simply using an aggressive image blocker when browsing the internet: if it isn’t interesting without the pictures, it isn’t interesting.
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Yes. We have to enforce our own and our children’s boundaries. There’s simply no other way.
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