Everyone from Sun Tzu to Ayn Rand agrees that any culture is driven by its philosophy, and being as the reigning philosophy of the past forty-fifty years has pooped out (secular humanism —> postmodernism —> outright silliness), it’s no surprise that the arts have pooped out too. As of yet nothing has arisen to replace it.

Charles Murray’s latest book goes into detail about the importance of what he called “transcendent values” in culture creation. At the moment, transcendent values are a little hard to come by, but that’ll change.

(Anyway, it’d better change.)

I might tune in to see Sidney Lumet get his – finally!