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teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoescapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.
Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
What else is there? Filling out a task list?
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.
Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
Art is escapism. Otherwise it’d be a structure instead of architecture.
There, I explained it to you.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Art isn’t just escapism. Sometimes it’s a way to help us understand, contextualize, and/or cope with our own reality.
teawrecks@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.
I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.
Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.