{"id":101570,"date":"2026-03-27T05:00:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T09:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=101570"},"modified":"2026-03-26T19:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T23:02:09","slug":"the-reason-you-feel-detached-from-most-modern-art-movies-and-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2026\/03\/27\/the-reason-you-feel-detached-from-most-modern-art-movies-and-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The reason you feel detached from most modern art, movies, and music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ted Gioia<\/a> explains what he calls the “Four steps to Hell” that have replaced the aesthetic values of the past and shows why everything in entertainment is being actively enshittified:<\/p>\n

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MGM’s lion and the Ars Gratia Artis<\/em> motto (Art for Art’s Sake). But the lion is screaming in pain today.<\/p><\/div>\n

Smart people have recently asked: What is the aesthetic vision of the 21st century?<\/a> What are the stylistic markers of our time? What are the core values driving the creative process? What is our zeitgeist?<\/p>\n

At first glance, that’s a hard question to answer. We are more than a quarter of the way through the century, and very little has changed since the 1990s.<\/p>\n