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英语真题阅读理解试题及名师解析( 30)
Many things make people think artists are weird. But the weirdest may be this: artists only
job is to explore emotions, and yet they choose to focus on the ones that feel bad.
This wasnt always so. The earliest forms of art, like painting and music, are those best suited
for expressing joy. But somewhere from the 19th century, more artists began seeing happiness as meaningless, phony or, worst of all, boring, as we went from Wordsworths daffodils to Baudelaires flowers of evil.
You could argue that art became more skeptical of happiness because modern times have
seen so much misery. But its not as if earlier times didnt know perpetual war, disaster and the massacre of innocents. The reason, in fact, may be just the opposite: there is too much damn happiness in the world today.
After all, what is the one modern form of expression almost completely dedicated to depicting happiness? Advertising. The rise of anti-happy art almost exactly tracks the emergence
of mass media, and with it, a commercial culture in which happiness is not just an ideal but an ideology.
People in earlier eras were surrounded by reminders of misery. They worked until exhausted, lived with few protections and died young. In the West, before mass communication and literacy,
the most powerful mass medium was the church, which reminded worshippers that their souls
were in danger and that they would someday be meat for worms. Given all this, they did not exactly need their art to be a bummer too.
Today the messages the average Westerner is surrounded with are not religious but
commercial, and forever happy. Fast-food eaters, news anchors, text messengers, all smiling,
smiling, smiling. Our magazines feature beaming celebrities and happy families in perfect homes. And since these messages have an agend a- to lure us to open our wallet s— they make the very
idea of happiness seem unreliable. Celebrate! commanded the ads for the arthritis drug Celebrex, before we found
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