Why have Americans failed to produce a single artist, philosopher or unique contribution to high culture...

Why have Americans failed to produce a single artist, philosopher or unique contribution to high culture? Surely with all that wealth they'd manage to do even *something*?

Because you arbitrarily define "high culture" to exclude Americans, owing to a deep seated sense of inferiority you try to compensate for.

So you should easily be able to give me one example to the contrary, then?

I can, but I want to hear your definition of what constitutes "high culture" first so you don't start inventing objections.

imagine getting this butthurt at a mere question

you might be retarded user, or just very lazy and intellectually dishonest

>intellectual dishonest
Buzzword.

>America hasnt produced any great arti-

>Buzzword
Do you have a hard time understanding what it means or are you just too autistic to read between the lines?

Walt Whitman

*blocks your path

>do you
You keep spewing buzzwords. Don't worry, I'll give you the last (You).

>Benjamin Franklin
>Edgar Allan Poe
>Mark Twain
>Ralph Waldo Emerson
>Henry David Thoreau
>Hunter S. Thompson

Heh, was actually gonna say Hunter S. Thompson, but didn't think it would fit the mold as "high culture". How about I throw Frank Lloyd Wright out there.

Or Ernest Hemingway, or even Jerry Thomas.

Tennese williams

what is hollywood?

>didn't think it would fit the mold as "high culture"

>hollywood
Point is now invalidated
Unless your super special definition of high culture excludes all of media

>high culture
lmao nigga that kind of shit is outdated now. America never really developed an aritocratic class the way europe did that led to what I assume you mean by high culture and then we got into the electric age where high culture doesn't really exist.

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Anyone here familiar with the works of Ezra Pound?

Why do people list Thoreau he's not a remarkable writer, philosopher or political theorist. When people mention him before names like Whitman or Melville it usually tells me they're simply groping for names and remember reading "Walden" or "Civil Disobedience" in school.

>high culture doesn't really exist.
I've never seen a post scream "I work with my hands and my interests are beer and monster trucks" as much as this.

Literally who?

>being this much of a pleb
stick to soy wars faggot

>mfw Edgar Allan Poe went to West Point

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Because the US is a very folks-y nation. Not aristocratic like the Europeans.

thread should've ended here

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I've never heard of any other country taking issue with the definition of high culture

>doesn't know john ford
i thought you yuros were cultured

What is Michael Jackson and Thriller?

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All the high art we've made comes from European traditions so maybe you have a point

I haven't "taken issue" with the definition. I'm asking for a definition to be used for purposes of this thread so when I name examples, I won't get met with "but that's not really high culture". So far, I've yet to see someone offer one.

Modern culture IS American culture!!!

>single artist, philosopher or unique contribution to high culture?
>Hemingway
>Ezra Pound
>Walt Whitman
>Russel Kirk
>Robert Nozick
>David McCullough
>Vincent Van Gough
>Faulkner
>Hudson River School
Why so you never ask the same of any other former colonies?
>Where are the great works of South Africa, Australia, and Canada?

australia, banjo patterson, dame edna

>mfw people think this

I agree with you but
>van gough
what did you mean by this?

You've disappointed both of us OP

>Tfw thought Van Gough moved to the US from Europe until just now
WTF I love europoors now