Pyronides

I wrote about this before "This is what you see now in the modern world: the way in which the great creations of the past, the great artistic creations of the past, are derided by the mass man, who says, “What’s the use of that? Why can’t we have something which is of use to us? Why should we have a symphony? Why should we have a great painting? Why can’t we have some money? Why can’t we have some consumer goods? Why can’t we have something which we can use?” And this is a very destructive impulse. Why would we go to the moon, for example if people go hungry here on Earth? This makes sense in a sort of sickly, liberal view of the world, let's all buy the world a Coke and furnish their home with love, but all it leads to is outright hostility to any sort of higher aspirations. We must only look downward, on man below us."