celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at?

Does " celebrate being hard to listen to and hard to look at" mean "praise the music that is harsh to our ears and praise the art that is a torture to our eyes"?

Context:

As a society we seem drawn not to harmony
but to conflict. The media is partly to blame, but the media only
plays to the public's desires. On the evening news you are likely
to hear of multicar crackups, destructive hurricanes, violent
crimes, messy celebrity divorces, and yes, raucous school board
debates over the teaching of evolution. You are not likely to
hear much about the coming together of neighborhood groups
of different faiths to try to solve community problems, nor
about lifelong atheist Anthony Flew becoming a believer, and
certainly not about theistic evolution or the double rainbow
seen over the city this afternoon. We love conflict and discord,
and the harsher the better. In academia, the serious music and
art produced by members of the faculty seem to celebrate being
hard to listen to and hard to look at. Harmony is boring.