[borgdefense]

This is an extraordinarily naive view.

No one is stopping anyone from making marble sculpture on the level of the Greeks or Romans either. It has probably never been easier for the average person to take up sculpture.

When a culture stops valuing an artistic medium the output in that medium is going to tend towards irrelevance.

[throwaway11460]

The medium - music, paintings in this case - is more alive than it ever was. Just in a different way and different style.