Why classical music, art and drama are getting extinct?

Question:

Why classical music, art and drama are getting extinct?

what is happening to present civilization?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

They're not - but the civilisation is declining because (a) people are too busy earning enough to live, or to buy far more than they need (a) TV has displaced family conversation (c) people wander around with pocket radios, ipods/mp3s or mobile phones stuck in their ears and see nothing (d) kids listen to beat-up repetitive wallpaper musak and don't listen to real music (e) most people's literacy is so low they can't be bothered to read "old" books - because they don't know what the words mean and can't be bothered to look them up (which might explain the spelling on "Answers" (f) confusing the radio and TV news for information, and the "shock-jocks" for informed comment, most people have the attention span of gnats (g) too many people have such dull lives they need horror movies and action dramas or extreme sports to get their blood moving as far as their necks, let alone their brains (g) politicians and others deride anyone who thinks (especially critically) as elitist (h) kids fall for the morons who tell them that actually learning to play anything except the drums and an electric guitar (or an ipod) is useless and "sissy" or whatever the latest word is ... and so it goes on. By the way, "getting" means obtaining - I reckon the word you meant was "becoming" or "going". As the poet said "Getting and spending we lay waste our powers" (and that was in the 19thC!) But there's still many people who value art etc. Even in Melbourne, more people go to the Art Gallery than to the football, even though the dreaded "footie" occupies more than one-third of the evening news reports!