Choice and Culture

Riffing a little more on that last post…

A lot has been made about the relationship between the individual liberties enjoyed by a society and its cultural output. Athens as a city-state; Florence under the Medici; Elizabethan England; American during and after the New Deal.

A lot has also been made about the internet and its abundance of choice. By extension it’s implied (see below) that the exercise of that choice becomes an expression of our individual liberty.

So I wonder: if we really are in the midst of a revolution in freedom and choice, can we expect the arts to flourish alongside it? Has anybody picked up on signs of that already?

Talk to me…

-T

~ by tridge on June 26, 2008.