2023.12.29 05:42
let someone experimentally verify if there is progress in art, or just changes in fashion
It's interesting to consider whether there is progress in art, or just changes in fashion. For example, is Lem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanisław_Lem) really better than Cervantes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Cervantes), or do we just think so because he's contemporary and writes in a style we're accustomed to? This could be tested experimentally: we would need to revive Kochanowski (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Kochanowski), give him some Mickiewicz (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Mickiewicz) and Herbert (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zbigniew_Herbert) to read, and ask for his opinion. But maybe there's an easier way: if someone has a baby, for the first eighteen years of its life, expose it only to culture created before 1939 - and then, on its eighteenth birthday, show it some Quentin Tarantino (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Tarantino) movies, play some Zenek Martyniuk (https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenon_Martyniuk) music, give it The Cyberiad (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cyberiad) and Zwierzoczłekoupior (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tadeusz_Konwicki) to read, and ask: "So, what do you think?"
And then do the opposite with a second child.
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