Art, history, and culture, are very much like rubbish, which we pick through at junk and antique shops for what we find useful or of interest. I'm surprised people take so much offense at it. Everyone picks and chooses, especially artists and musicians, who are always tossing one thing aside, or reviving interest in something forgotten. Sometimes they do both at once, like when Shaw started rubbishing Shakespeare, and in the process revived him. Or, at least that's how Shaw told it, later.