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You could use a path forward or two tbh

Don't entirely agree with Elph but there's a grain of truth there: you can't separate art from the context in which it is produced, consumed, distributed etc and the institution of "classical music" nowadays is a braindead and everything else dead rotting corpse.

The taste and aesthetic sensibility of the average concertgoer (who is most likely a middle aged lawyer) are straight up r-worded. It speaks volumes that the kind of popular music that's catered to them is the "classical crossover" of Sarah Brightman, Andrea Bocelli, Lara Fabian, Il Divo etc. Increasingly, classical performers adopt a similarly kitschy and embarrassing aesthetic (Khatia Buniatishvili, HAUSER etc).


The reference understander

The Biden admin could be doing more to fulfill their campaign promises about drilling, but right now they are caught in an unprecedentedly hard place, with the sudden ban on Russian oil and people complaining about prices at the pumps.

Here's an at-a-glance guide to what's been going on:-

https://s.abcnews.com/images/Technol...5_16x9_384.jpg

(That sudden dip from Trump's peak shows the effect of the pandemic, more than Trump's remorse over tribal lands and environmental damage - at least, that's how I read it.)

Let's face it, humans aren't known for their forward thinking.

^ Yes, that's a real worry - and what's worse is that some plans put in place in the past, that seemed pretty forward thinking at the time, are now barely adequate for the new circs. This Lake Mead/Hoover Dam update has some interesting details about good intentions being thwarted:-