WLD,

OK, no offense taken (not that I consider you to be a contributor who would be deliberately offensive, anyway - robust in your arguments, perhaps, but there's nothing wrong with that!).

Actually, I'm intrigued by your ideas - but I don't have a really clear idea about what you are proposing (often reads like 'babies and bathwater' stuff - but perhaps not).

For the record, my view is that it is modern popular culture which is 'spiritually degenerate' and it is trad. song which provides me with a viable alternative (as well as a personal artistic outlet and a fine community to belong to). It is also an article of faith with me that the past is important and the wholesale rejection of the past, which appears to be a defining characteristic of contemporary culture, is the real reason why that culture is 'spiritually degenerate' in the first place!