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this is a symptom of a larger unwillingness to experience art without first being certain that you’ll like it. you see it in trope tags, movie trailers that spoil the whole movie, microgenres, algorithmic playlists, you get exactly what you want every time without ever exploring.
Polly Pocketknifex.comif you already pay for a streaming service watching a new upload feels "free" so you're more likely to check out a movie that looks mid
X. It’s what’s happening
"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something"
- Jenna Marbles (I think)
It’s ok to just not like something without fabricating a moral reason to fulfill your self-righteousness
Swolecialisttwitter.comThe battle to reclaim every garbage film someone loves just because they saw it as a child is a sad never-ending one. Some stuff just isn’t good …and that is okay. Not every soulless piece of studio output designed to sell tacos and soundtrack CDs is some unrecognized genius.
Matthew Essarytwitter.comNostalgia is a socially malignant force
The reason why "diaspora poet" has become a denigrating term is not because people are afraid of the hard hitting truths about orientalism or art. It's because these poets, in their search for identity, end up approaching their heritage through an orientalised lens themselves.
idiltwitter.com“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont
... See morehumanities scholars see a STEM topic they don't understand and think "damn, guess i don't understand that. they must be smart" while STEM people see a humanities topic they don't understand & go "they must just be making shit up"
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