Summer Film Releases

I don't think it is my imagination that summer film releases get progressively worse. I sometimes even think that filmmakers in what is left of Hollywood want to see just how awful a movie they can make and get away with it. I don't think the reason is commercialization, contempt or a gullible public. The reason films, novels, music and other creative works leave so much to be desired is in part due to an increasing distance between the artist and the public. Most people create in a vacuum without a sense of social involvement. Such was not the case in the 1960s, and resulted in the exemplary art explosion that still rewards the world.