Gary Hall<p>Too intelligent for <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>art</span></a> and <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/culture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>culture</span></a> ?</p><p>Brian <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Eno" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Eno</span></a> really captures the situation faced by many young people today - indeed all of us: “I had met a 15-year-old who was talking about doing her A-levels. She said, ‘Well, I really want to do art because that’s what I like, but my teacher said I was too bright for that.’ I thought: that is really the death of a culture. When we decide that stuff we’ve been doing for the whole of human history is not as important as learning about <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/FinTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FinTech</span></a> or <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/computer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computer</span></a> programming.” </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/2025/jan/11/i-dont-like-being-revered-brian-eno-on-art-ai-and-why-he-hates-talking-about-david-bowie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/music/2025/jan</span><span class="invisible">/11/i-dont-like-being-revered-brian-eno-on-art-ai-and-why-he-hates-talking-about-david-bowie</span></a></p>