“We are beginning to exit the corporate period.” We can only pray!

Too many voices in the room can't create art, it's always personal

David, you've been killing it lately! As someone who plays music and makes art for a living, I've been really interested in the idea of people basing their identities on the products they consume, rather than what they do or who they are. It's never been easier to access all types of media, so it's really easy to get into obscure things and become known as tech death dude rather than Bob who is a husband and chef. I also think this genrefication leads to a lot of alienation. I grew up listening to punk and metal, and I hung out with other kids who liked punk and metal. The thing is I was into hardcore punk, and I didn't get along with the pop punk kids even though they also listened to punk. There are further divisions, where the vegan punks didn't like me because I ate meat. So you'd go to a small show in a small punk scene because you wanted to be a part of a community, but then there's all this tension because your highly specific subgenre doesn't line up with someone else's highly specific subgenre. What also interests me is how streaming and on-demand services don't create a shared experience. Remember how up until the 90s or early 2000s everyone tended to watch the same things, and you could go to work or school the next day and talk to your friends about what you saw (Seinfeld and South Park spring to mind for me)? Or sometimes we'd all listen to the radio at the same time to hear the world premier of a band's new song. Now we all have highly customized Spotify playlists and we watch whatever we want on demand - My best friend and I are rock fans, but rather than listening to the same rock station and discovering the same new bands, we discover music that's completely different from one another. Likewise, if the new season of Stranger Things came out today and you only watched one episode while your friend watched the entire season at once, you'll have nothing to talk about. Hell, maybe you didn't even watch Stranger Things because you found 50 other movies to watch. And since we're a culture that places so much value on the entertainment you consume, you may as well be alone in the wilderness if you can't connect to people through a shared media experience.

One thing I have to say about modern art is this: "You're so ugly you can be a modern art masterpiece!" -Sgt. Hartman

"Harmony was not preformed in the early church because harmony is inherently emotionally manipulative." *sips Legend Coke can* "So that's something to think about."

Wonderful lecture. Thank you so much for taking the time to provide this type of content in this extended format.

Great video, I liked your comments on the MCU, well made movies but have nothing of the cultural impact of the original Star Wars and are imaginatively inferior. I realise I'm pulling one pithy point out of a very rich lecture.

"It's the average citizen who benefits the most from corporate art" - exactly, hence the unifying culture of the late 1940s through we'll say, the early '90s, was middle-brow and there's nothing wrong with that, because by its nature, it appealed across many if not most social and cultural and economic boundaries.

>buy vinyls in bulk for few dollars/cents Same goes now for CD's. I've started collecting cd's in 2019 and it's really blessing. I listen mostly to IDM, prog rock and ambient and can find so much of good music for 50 cent-2 bucks

Love this lecture. Thank you for taking some of the lectures from the Writestreams and putting them out as their own videos David.

Note that the Eastern Church was critical of the Western Church because the West went in for realistic statuary whereas the East considered that ‘idolatrous ‘ compared to its own iconography which was intentionally representational

Adore that very last point re: Disney and it's expansion representing the late stages of a star. Desperate for energy ('capital'), the Mouse Corporation is expanding feverishly to absorb more IPs and assets as the viability of the market collapses. In a capitalist society, a corporation needs endless growth and profit to survive. Higher rates of growth beget higher profit needs. The rapid expansion of Disney will therefore hasten the collapse of the corporate cinema era rather than preserve it.

Fascinating.

I remember an interview with Guns N Roses producer Alan Niven where he said that in 1994 there was a change in the tax laws where record labels were no longer allowed to write off unsuccessful bands. This change disincentiveized signing high risk experimental bands with unique sounds. After that the music industry focused on getting safe returns on investment by signing mainstream pop bands with established sound. I haven't been able to verify if any of what Niven said is true or not, but it sure would explain a lot.

1:47 Eruption *exactly 25 minutes later* 26:47 Collapse 43:53 small eruptions again

This was a very interesting listen, I thoroughly enjoyed it

Wow just found this KZfaq channel. Amazingly insightful video!

Same thing happened to Industrial and New Wave music +EBM - so many sub genres now !

I just resubbed! I forgot you since I made a new account and had to resub to everything. Loved you a year or two ago. Good stuff... glad you're still making vids, and I hope to see a bunch.

Awesome video David! I would love to hear you expand more on the explanations for WWI and WWII you gave in this video. From the two sentences of explanation you gave here... I'm not sure I follow or agree. I'm sure you have a well thought out position on it, so i would love to hear it :)

One thing I tell people who complain about "corporate art" (movies or music) is... just go to a festival. There are more movies being made every year. There are probably more movies made every day of the year than there were in total in the 1990s. Sure, you may need to read some subtitles. but some of the most emotional or deep movies I have ever seen were probably never released in US cinemas. Go to a film festival, search online, get digital versions. There is SO MUCH available, that I simply don't care if they make Toy Story 55. Toy story 1 is still on my shelf and I can watch it whenever I want... and if Toy Storyt 33 is awesome, if they stopped at 2, we may never have had it. It's like with Stephen King adaptations. Ok, some are awesome, some suck, but I am still happy they are being made. Every 5th movie could be great and as Stephen King always says, the book is still on the bookshelf, who cares?

I can’t wait for Hollywood and AAA gaming to collapse. Decentralize decentralize and decentralize some more!

Excellent video

Great stream!

I like harmony Gospel music. Emotionally manipulative can be good. I like to feel things. Praise and worship God! :-)

When The Beatles disbanded in 1970, all of the members were in debt. John and Paul for 100,000+ pounds each. People around them made money. They got screwed. Didn't make any real money until they went solo. All of The Beatles mid/late 60's albums, including Pepper, were produced on outdated recording technology. 4 track recorders at best. They would record a few tracks then combine them into a single track to free up more space on the deck. No one ever did more with less than The Beatles did. The only real perk they ever had was studio time.

I really loved this and your grasp on all the different artistic professions is very impressive What you say is important and it's why I always pay attention to your videos Excellent

If you've done a similar overview of the periods in literature, please let me know which writestream it was so I can go back and check it out.

Up next: Eyebrow raising 🤨 (from the Writestream)

Thank god the corporate controlled era of art is almost over, as a writer I get to own 100% of my work because of the world wide availability and low cost of technology. As a fan,Yes corporations produced some well structured and gave us awesome music but as a creator it was not good because it was all corporate owned.

Is that a anime picture of baby Jesus and Mary? That poster behind you in this video. God bless :-)

Now do Austrian economics

More like Outrage, Tax Evasion and Corporate Period.

If the corporate period in art is coming to end, I'm not certain corporations are aware. Disney’s $4.05-billion purchase of Star Wars paid off in a few years, with $4.85 billion in global box office revenue from four films (two of which I enjoyed, two of which I would consider failures). If that kind of that trend continues, then so will corporate "art."

I agree with everything you say, but you have to be careful when you belittle 'weird' ' 'academic' 'experimental' art. Essentially, you make the argument that experimentation is bad. Many of the forms we appreciate now, found their feet in artists making what was at the time deeply offensive and insulting to the tastes of the day. Even if less than 1% of all frufru art produces ideas and directions that are later seen to be exciting and interesting, then it was worth it. I'd rather live in that world, than in a boring world where everyone is making tired and worn-out versions of 19th century skill. All equally skilled, all equally pompous, and all equally static. Just my thoughts.

Did you major in pedantics? LOL!