> Art, by its very nature, can't be conformist. So they hate it and have no use for it, and it's easy to rally them against "liberal arts" long-hairs. This pla

> Art, by its very nature, can't be conformist. So they hate it and have no use for it, and it's easy to rally them against "liberal arts" long-hairs. This places the blame entirely on the masses, while ignoring the harm that ivory-tower teaching has done to alienate the general population. The Academic style taught 100 years ago was beautiful by most people's standards, while today that's been abandoned. I agree that we need more general education, yet has failed to prove to the general public that it can provide this.