[lbo-talk] Re: Vinyl

[Mark S]

Doug Henwood wrote:
>
>Oh, I agree that the U.S. scene, with some exceptions (I hear all kinds of 
>stuff just walking around NYC), can be pretty insular. But Woj's view of 
>the rest of the world drowning in American crap just isn't true.
>
John Ralston Saul:

I'd like to share a little number-crunching I've done: 90% of culture is 
what you might call local or regional or strictly national. What remains is 
5% which is purely commercial, and of poor cultural quality. I don't have a 
problem with that. The last 5% is high art. This is the creativity of which 
we most often speak. It either is genius or is thought to be. And genius is 
beyond borders. The commercial 5%, and the genius 5% represent "universal" 
culture, but they are the product of the 90% of "local" culture.

http://www.gg.ca/media/doc.asp?lang=e&DocID=1358

M.

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