High culture was always and will always be enjoyed only by a tiny minority. Most people don’t have the IQ and the depth of subjectivity to understand or derive any pleasure from it.
We don’t need a solution for this situation just like we don’t need a solution to the fact that the overwhelming majority of the population isn’t physically capable of playing in the NBA. The idea that “anybody can be whatever they choose” is cute in middle school but it’s not based in reality. Most people (including me) can never become neurosurgeons, professional athletes, or opera singers no matter how hard we try. And that’s perfectly fine.
As to whether you can cultivate your taste in art, it’s like your taste in food. You can definitely improve your palate. You’ll always hanker for a boiled sausage that’s familiar from your childhood. So it’s possible to an extent without ever becoming a mass phenomena.
We should abandon the ludicrous idea that hierarchies are bad. This idea, and not “slop”, is the real problem. Hierarchies are good and important everywhere. At home, at work, in church, at school, everywhere.
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Hierarchies are ok when they are malleable and usually require massive ignorance on the bottom to endure outside limited contexts. Otherwise they lead to revolution – see today’s Trumpian revolt against the woke hierarchy that was taking over the west; the jury is out on its duration and success as too many people of power benefited from the woke hierarchy and imho the odds are it will be suppressed and historically will be perceived like Wat Tyler, the Duke of Monmouth or Yemelyan Pugachev rebellions etc
However I strongly disagree about art, taste at least as literature goes; music is more universal though even there I do not think we have enough historical data to truly assess – they depend on the dominant culture to a very large extent; just as a thought example assume that in 200 years Chinese culture takes the dominant position in the world and English language culture vanishes or becomes like Celtic culture today say; how many writers of the current pantheon will be in the new pantheon – (hint very few that can be repurposed like some classical Chinese writers have been today, but the so called universal ones like Shakespeare, Dickens etc will be relegated to minor footnotes and a few specialists with most people having not heard of them like today most people do not know about say The Plum in the Golden Vase or other Chinese classics)
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