It would be nice if we got another Mozart or Michelangelo. But it isn't going to happen. We don't have the heart for it anymore. The soil isn't there anymore. It takes generations of people fiddling away at home with their neighbors on dark winter nights to raise a decent composer. It takes generations of writers constantly reading, testing, living the canon to raise a Milton or Shakespeare. Now people want instant success or nothing.

We need, as a culture, to stop consuming and start creating. There should be a metal band in every garage. A string quartet in every little publishers office. A choir in every police station.

And they need to have pride in their roots they need a terroire (to borrow a concept from wine), they need a Sibelius who will compose their music because he is so damned proud of being a Finn. They need a center.

In the centrifugal force of modernism every bond of affection or force is obliterated. We are all atomized. You can't expect to reap anything good when the soil is dead and all is air.

But we can change this. And it will be the most important thing we ever do. Teach all our children music, let a billion souls sing. Leave no child ignorant in the basic arts of drawing, sculpture, dance.

What else are we here for? A planet teeming with billions in unprecedented wealth and we can't compose a single Opera that will rouse men to stand up and shout themselves hoarse to save our lives, single movie that will inspire a million young couples to start the greatest adventure in the history of mankind: the family.

In the words of the old poet: "Turn of the damned radio and take the fiddle down from the wall."
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