When an accident is waiting to happen, it eventually does.

OR another way of putting it, when ot comes to "moral hazard" and other risks:

...resembles a nap on a railway track. One afternoon, the surprise train will run you over."
(with credit to Taleb)

Quote from Steve Sondheim

"...mistake pretention for depth and incompetence for talent."

Oh, I love that. I have seen it so many times in "art galleries" in so many places. Fashion takes the place of style, and bafflegab in place of knowledge.
Of course art (to include music, of course) has "periods" and "styles" aka trends. But it is sadly true that these are often fueled by "artistes" (with a bow to my one-time teacher Fred Zimmerman) who now how to spin a yarn, but would not recognize true talent if it bit them. And of course, the cognoscenti swallow it all, as they should any good bit of marketing.
The most destructive aspect of this has to do with serial music, aka twelve-tone, aka serial dodecaphony. The promotion of this created the great divide of classical and pop music, to the detriment of both audiences.
This attitude still has currency, when classical critics decry the "sell-out" out artists to any element of popular taste.
What we need is the artistic equivalent of the reign of terror - eliminate all the snobs and elitists in one fell swoop, as it were.
And yes, I am aware that I have been referred to as an elitist.

Common sense is nothing but a collection of misconceptions acquired by age 18.
(attributed to Albert Einstein)

Islamism as explained by ...

"The Koran and the Mussalman legislation emanating from it reduce the geography and thnography of the various people to the simple and convenient distinction of two nations and of two countries; those of the Faithful and those of the Infidels.
Islamism proscribes the nation of the Infidels constituting a state of permanent hostility between the Mussalman and the Unbeliever.

This, from 1854; the author - Karl Marx!

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Borrowed wisdom can be vicious.

It is foolish to think that someone irrational cannot become more irrational.