Apologists to the avant-garde may say that those disillusioned are just jealous, which jealously leads them to apathy about staying with the trends. But to this I say: fools! Do you not realize that if the trends are so hard to keep up with in the first place, it only means that it's impossible for them to affect any real social change?
(I do realize that perhaps no one is arguing this, and that that may be a total strawman attack. But at least I've prevented anyone from making that argument in the future.)
There is no avant garde. There'd need to be a center to have that, and the art scene would have to be more or less supported by society at large. Art cannot carry itself if there isn't mutual respect there. But there is none. Except in places far removed from wherever the "avant-garde" say they are right now.
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