>> Certainly there is when it is done well.
>>
>> >Pop culture takes well deserved whacks, but
>> it's not without items
>> >to praise either. After all -- what were the
>> Greeks and Romans, and all
>> >those Mayans, Koreans, Chinese, Africans,
>> Neanderthals etc indulging in with
>> >their art, pottery, myths, etc etc but
>> expressing their culture?
>>
>> I suppose that's true.  It just seems that some
>> of the "older stuff" was
>> done more intelligently and elegantly than a
>> goodly bit of what comes out
>> of the mill today.
>
>A well known "Murphy's Law" is Sturgeon's Law which states:
"Ninety percent
of
>science fiction is crap -- because ninety percent of anything is crap."  A
>good friend of Barb's and mine is an old style jazz musician who (looking
over
>tunes that don't and shouldn't get played any more) formulated Holzgraffe's
>Collary: "However, that which survives more than fifty years is pretty
good."
>In other word, a lot of what we still see from the old cultures is the best
of
>the best of the best.  Time can be a great filter.  Even for artifacts,
what
>we see on display is the really good, interesting stuff (to the public).
We
>don't see the drawers and cartons of the mediocre stuff put away in the
back
>storerooms and labs.
>
>Best,
>
>Russ, the waterweasel
>

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