I've never heard of this guy before right this second, but I'm willing to bet any amount of money you care to name that he has never in his life read any of Jun'ichirล Tanizaki's work. !dramatards, on the other hand, might have read In Praise of Shadows if they saw my comment a couple months ago.
!bookworms, why are "media literate" types never just fricking literate? Would solve a lot of problems if they'd pick up a book, any non-Harry Potter-adjacent book, at some point in their life. But no. That's too much effort. Surely a Wikipedia article will suffice.
Because people who throw that term around treat literature like a math problem that needs to be solved. They think that theres only one "correct" way to analyze a piece of art, and if you have a differing opinion then obviously you just didnt understand what the story was about. Why would he bother reading the book and come up with his own opinion when he can look up the correct interpretation online and regurgitate it to other r-slurs.
I am totally not still seething about being called media illiterate by an art hoe last week
Instead of actually cultivating taste in art, they curate opinions about art... I'm smart because I have all the same opinions as smart people.
The problem becomes, no one actually knows what makes something good. Everything gets awful when the people who are good at faking it (right fashion, right politics, very social, ... ) set the fashion that everyone else copies; While the actual artists (who are being weird and making art) get called posers for not having the right tshirt.
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I've never heard of this guy before right this second, but I'm willing to bet any amount of money you care to name that he has never in his life read any of Jun'ichirล Tanizaki's work. !dramatards, on the other hand, might have read In Praise of Shadows if they saw my comment a couple months ago.![:marseyvaporwave: :marseyvaporwave:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyvaporwave.webp)
!bookworms, why are "media literate" types never just fricking literate? Would solve a lot of problems if they'd pick up a book, any non-Harry Potter-adjacent book, at some point in their life. But no. That's too much effort. Surely a Wikipedia article will suffice.![:marseydunce: :marseydunce:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseydunce.webp)
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Because people who throw that term around treat literature like a math problem that needs to be solved. They think that theres only one "correct" way to analyze a piece of art, and if you have a differing opinion then obviously you just didnt understand what the story was about. Why would he bother reading the book and come up with his own opinion when he can look up the correct interpretation online and regurgitate it to other r-slurs.
I am totally not still seething about being called media illiterate by an art hoe last week![:marseyrain: :marseyrain:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyrain.webp)
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Instead of actually cultivating taste in art, they curate opinions about art... I'm smart because I have all the same opinions as smart people.
The problem becomes, no one actually knows what makes something good. Everything gets awful when the people who are good at faking it (right fashion, right politics, very social, ... ) set the fashion that everyone else copies; While the actual artists (who are being weird and making art) get called posers for not having the right tshirt.
Yup, I'm not seething either![:marseyseethe: :marseyseethe:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyseethe.webp)
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I read the book cause it was like 20 pages about how much better lacquer bowls look in dim candlelight
I want a refund !r-slurs back me up
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I saw your comment and read the book
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