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From: cher@ihlpf.UUCP (Mike Cherepov)
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Subject: Re: Movies and the Middle Ages
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Date: Fri, 3-Oct-86 16:05:37 EDT
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> Today we have popular entertainment that seems to wallow deliberately in
> banality, stupidity, and bad taste.  Does the Sixteenth century have 
> anything to compare to Ozzy Ozborne or daytime television? No. The idea
> of art which deliberately glorifies mediocrity and imbecility is *our*
> invention. *They* had beautiful polyphonic music, brilliant painting,
> wonderful poetry.

I would not get too exited. Their stuff (esp. beutiful polyphonic music) 
was created on the order and for consumption of, say, 0.5% of the 
population. The rest were too busy trying to feed themselves to feel 
deprived.

>                   *We* have Auschwitz, Hiroshima, and Joseph Stalin. I
> suspect that the next millennium will be filled with people who will 
> shudder at the thought of anyone living in such a revolting and barbaric
> century as this one.

The leading ideology of our age is much more enlightened. "Unalienable
rights" and such. Luther was an incredible antisemite - how's that
for a spiritual leager, Bacon was a proponent of war - it is for states 
what exercise is for humans, you know. As for next millennium - who knows what 
atrocities they can come up with... 
		Mike Cherepov