Personally, I enjoy and I appreciate consuming higher value art. For instance, I rather read “The Count of Monte Cristo” instead of reading a book from John Green. However, the people that consume this high value art aren’t in a position to judge and categorize themselves elite or categorize others just because they are reading a deeper book. Appreciating high value art, isn’t reading a book for its name or its elite status. A person can absorb content, but it has no significance if the content isn’t being applied to the way we live in society. As a matter of fact, there is more value and appreciation when a person reads a quick read book and uses the content to create a deeper understanding that can be connected to the way a person lives in a community.
Without any doubt appreciating high value art can be a great skill under your belt, but it isn’t for everybody in the world. Trying to forcefully impose this section of art to humans can badly change the demeanor or perception a person has when reading a book. For example, we all know the rigors of the Ivy League Schools and the other competitive schools in the world. The minimum acceptance rate each of these universities have is an indicator that they are selective to whom thy want to accept. Students from a variety of high schools push themselves extensively with the false perception that if they keep up with this pace, they will go to an Ivy League School. I am not trying to say that you should simply surrender or have a lower work ethic. I am simply stating that the chances of a student getting admitted are minimal and that these universities, unfortunately, only accept a couple thousand students when there are other hundred of thousands of high school students with the same goal. Being admitted to these universities is an excellent tool to have for your future career, but probably these universities aren't best suited for everyone. This goes for the same, with high valued art. There are people in this world that are best suited to learn with high value art, but there are others that can learn at a high level with other levels of art, because it simply suits their style of learning.
More about Trivialization of Higher Culture and its adaptation to modern society, will be discussed next week in our first live podcast - Duckthought. Subjects like these will be discussed weekly by me and four other members that share similar interests, but with varied points of views. Higher culture and art isn't an attribute that can only be discussed by adults; it is a topic that can be expand upon by adolescents like myself. Duckthought will bring people a discussion about uncommon topics for the common teenager. The topics that will be discussed are mature and complex, but unusual for a teenager to seek.