Chapotraphouse

I hope to God this dude isn't American and talking about there being a shallowness to Chinese culture, to say nothing of talking about fucking literature like more than 5% of Americans read literature that was written for adults. Obviously this also applies to the "life" category too, but that's much harder to persuade someone of, while these other points are unforgivable.

So that just leaves non-literary art and, like . . . our best auteurs make movies that are a waste of time and it's just a question of whether they make money from special effects or shot composition that doesn't actually advance a message, and we get like one really good TV series per 10,000, including some of the most heinously senseless garbage you can imagine (shout out to Tulsa King), and remember what I said about how no one reads? If even 1% of Americans can name a single contemporary American painter other than fucking Banksy, I would truly be fucking shocked unless it was like a comic book artist who paints on the side (no disrespect to them), or if .1% could name a sculptor. Don't worry about digital art either, because we're doing our best to drown it in AI slop (like literature, incidentally).

But it's okay, because we have the long tradition of American musical theater, where the biggest play of the last decade, which the cultured First Lady Michelle Obama (BA from Princeton, JD from Harvard) called "the best piece of art in any form that I've ever seen in my life," is . . . Hamilton

Fuck this fucking country. Literally all we have is music, and that shit's been dominated by sexual abusers since rock and roll was a real thing, if not longer.