Comment on How original. Fucking Shakespeare over here.
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day agoWe would probably have a much higher (and more incorrect) opinion of ourselves. We’re all fools, and recognizing our own foolishness reflected in art doesn’t make it not so. Just makes it easier to think about.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
Maybe? I don’t think that’s where I learned to introspect from. But maybe the stakes are lower learning to socialize from stories
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
A lot of narrative stories (fiction and non) are in the format “person in situation X makes decision Y and experiences consequences Z” with the moral being “if you are in a situation like X, doing Y will have Z consequences” ("moral” in the sense of being a generalizable life lesson). I think they’re an important part of how we discuss life experiences as a community, both extraordinary and mundane. And it is a lot easier to learn from stories than to experience consequences in real life. The problem is that storytellers are all humans and sometimes bad at storytelling, so care must be taken when learning from stories, and they all have to be validated against real life experience.
And then before you know it, you’ve become an art critic.
sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 1 day ago
You’re probably right. I have grown up to be pretty pretentious about art, despite how little I understood it at formative years. Other people might be shaped by their experiences with it differently than I was
queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone 23 hours ago
How the same art affects different people is an ongoing fascination of mine. I grew up using books to take my mind off of life, and I read voraciously. No one around me really had a high opinion of “art”, and I didn’t even really think of the books I read as art, at least not until I was an adult. As I get older I see more of the impact that art has had on my thinking and life, though it’s still very much an ongoing project. Comparing my own experience of art to others’ is why I love art criticism, especially “bad” earnest criticism. Even bad faith “criticism” is kind of interesting, in that it says something about the selfish worldview of the author, but I have limited stomach for it.