Style v Substance

Have you been to the movies lately? I thought not. Movies are a small industry now compared to TV and Computer games. A visit to the cinema helps tell why. The technical quality of movies is unsurpassed. Picture quality is crystal clear and sound quality while at times a bit OTT is sparkling and incisive. So far so good. So what is wrong?  The movies. Movie makers as artists not technicians seem incapable of delivering films which we might wish to see, films which entertain, films which reflect our lives, films which touch our innermost selves. Much of the output is technically superb and artistically awful.  Plenty of science and no art worth sitting through. And so it is across human endeavour. The scientific, technical achievements are massive - excellent hardware but poor content, poor software as it were. And so we "stay away", we lead lives which are unnecessarily impoverished for lack of excellent social or artistic insights. Books, music, films, theatre all suffer when their content is compared with the technical virtuosity that delivers the experience. Science works, sociology and the arts are struggling.