Dumbing Down

Why does everything have to be dumbed down? Yet more evidence: Go to the BBC website or the ABC (Australian...) website and look for a category called "Arts". You won't find one. Sure, they have "Business" and "Sport" and "World", but no "Arts". No, the editors of these prestigious organisations have seen fit to file the Arts - poetry, dance, literature, classical music, painting, etc etc - under "Entertainment". ENTERTAINMENT! When I listen to Beethoven, or browse the drawings of Rembrandt, or read some Wallace Stevens, I don't look to be "entertained'! Sure, some art can be entertaining, and some entertainment can be artful, but PLEASE! Yes, I know that Entertainment is now the opium of the people, but this is further evidence of the long decline into barbarism.