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Jun 18, - A lot of people are afraid to accept mediocrity because they believe that if they accept being mediocre, then they'll never achieve anything, never improve, and that their life doesn't matter.
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Perhaps that is to be expected inasmuch as excellence is by definition a slim minority; it is rare everywhere. My observation, I fully realize, may be a lament of the old generation. Things were better in the old days; they are so much shoddier today.

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Artistic creations rarely have depth these days. They don't make movies the way they used to. Bookstores carry piles of new books; bestsellers with some exceptions are often less than mediocre. I've been foolishly tricked into thinking that bestseller books are significant; some are but most aren't. Every generation of the elderly in every age no doubt denigrated the present and extolled the good old days.

It's not just old folks who deplore the films the industry delivers today; young film buffs do, too. Art dealers, publishers, and film studios are merchants.

Profit making is their primary goal. So, it is understandable that they search out saleable talents to sell; and in their efforts toward this end, if they don't find great talents that are saleable, they swoop down on mediocre talents and elevate them to stars. Elevated to stardom, lesser talents are sold as something better than their real value. Success in marketing presupposes eager buyers or, rather, it means creating buyers who can be unsuspectingly led to believe sales records as a mark of quiality.

Those who sell the most are touted as the best. Gullible clientele is a boon to marketing.

Collectors of art without discerning taste rely on the names that galleries flaunt as today's stars. Then, the mediocre artists begin to delude themselves that they are great artists. They may be leading artists in terms of revenue but not necessarily artists of significant vision and creativity. The force of the market also accounts for the fashionable revivals in classical music and theater, multiplying interminably the list of forgotten composers, many of whom are better left forgotten, and putting on the stage the long-shelved operas and plays that are best left on the dusty shelf.

Again, the efforts are not entirely futile. There have been treasures fortuitously rediscovered; revival efforts were necessary for these exceptions. But I witness a tendency among those who promote revivals to refuse to admit that many of them are mediocre. The public is led to believe then that whatever is writ large in publicity is a worthy work that merit the qualification to be called noteworthy. The retrospective of Childe Hassam at the Metropolitan Museum of Art did disservice to this artist of limited talent, imitative or otherwise derivative, jaundiced in his sense of palette and uncertain of the art of composition.

The museum, giving a platform to a mediocre artist, gives the public a deceptive message that she or he is an artist to reckon with. Here is a forgotten master; take note we are told. Museums have a duty to evaluate and judge and be selective and inform the public of the knowledge they possess. So, mediocrity reigns supreme, and it is alarming. For it now permeates the realm of higher learning, as well.

Some professors, dare I say too many of late, reject the canon of great books and indiscriminately teach great and mediocre books without distinguishing them. Authority is what they are fearful of excercising, though who are professors but those who devoted years and decades and eventually a lifetime to a pursuit of knowledge in a given field and thereby possess the authority that others don't. If they didn't evaluate, select, and pass judgments, who will? Adventures Of The Yorkshire Shepherdess. Amanda Owen. A History of the World in 21 Women.

Jenni Murray. Lady in Waiting. Anne Glenconner. The Irishman. Charles Brandt. The Fear Bubble. Ant Middleton. Year of the Monkey. Patti Smith.

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