To Save Culture, Artists Must Value Craft Once Again
Commentary
Many lament the collective decline of critical thought among young people, not just here in Australia but throughout the Western world.
It seems to me that there are a variety of contributing factors to this very real crisis, not least of all social media, an agent which has significantly impaired the concentration of so many of our children, leaving them bereft of interests and skills.
But there can be no excuse for the failing standards of education, be those failures in our primary, secondary or tertiary learning institutions. Most faculties within universities now privilege ever-arbitrary “feelings” above truth and empiricism….