The Public Is A Lot Smarter Than Anyone Gives It Credit For
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Quote from Philippe de Montebello director of the Metropolitan Museum in New York in a great article titled The Age Of Mass Intelligence from More Intelligent Life. One of the longest but best posts I have read in a long time with some interesting gems about how popular culture has become more and more cultured as our choices have exploded
- One in nine of Britain’s adult population are regular listeners of Classic FM
- 43 literary festivals in Britain in October alone
- New York Metropolitan Opera transmitted eight operas to 935,000 people (in cinemas) this year
- In 1999/2000, there were 24m visits to Britain’s biggest museums. In 2007/08, the figure was 40m.
One of the conclusions they draw is that dumbing down is nonsense which I agree with – now if I could just find time to stop reading voraciously on the web I may find some culture!
Anyway….I shall pay this magazine more attention in future as I’ve ignored to date. That’s what happens when you put Paris Hilton on the cover of a serious magazine!
sidenote: they say they have a blog but they don’t. tip….a blog HAS to have an RSS feed to be worthy of the name