Pfft. Amateurs.

Ahem:

". . . But later, an unmusical anarchy was led by poets who had natural
talent, but were ignorant of the laws of music...Through foolishness they
deceived themselves into thinking that there was no right or wrong way in
music, that it was to be judged good or bad by the pleasure it gave. By
their works and their theories they infected the masses with the
presumption to think themselves adequate judges. So our theatres, once
silent, grew vocal, and aristocracy of music gave way to a pernicious
theatrocracy...the criterion was not music, but a reputation for
promiscuous cleverness and a spirit of law-breaking."

Plato. Laws, 701.
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