№9, 2009 “Pyryshki-Pupyryshki” of our cultureMy favorite TV channel is “М1”. There are a lot of red and white, a lot of silicon and spikes, a lot of fur and rhinestones, a lot of Bentley and Hummer – a lot of glamour. There is a lot of music in three chords, a lot of clips about “gooseberry”– a lot of clichés. And this is good.
A reader, who before it had managed to read a serious article, and then thought a lot, having looked through this introduction, will resent: how this pops for poor can be admired? Overfastidiousness is not needed. And affectation is not needed. “Morality” is the first enemy of aesthetical spontaneity. Yes, I like it. And I have enough courage to confess in it. Moreover I have an alibi: very honorable Hannah Arendt in essay “Crisis of Culture” mentioned: it is needed to say sincerely that the art which entertains the masses can entertain highbrows [Arendt H. Between the Past and the Future. –K., 2002]. Certainly, she does not conclude from it that except for mass no other art is needed. But that is a different theme. Presently we have “Pyryshki-Pupyryshki”. |