You have to get a grip on your elitism! The art you long for was the art of the wealthy and educated who have time to ponder these things. The dim-witted, criminla-minded layabouts that make up the rest of society want cheap, easy-to-undertand entertainment with little or no demand for thought.

There's certainly still genuinear andmerit around, but you won't find it in the mass media. That's the Reithian Error.