62 | What is Aesthetics? Part I. Schiller's Letters on Aesthetic Education
What's Left of Philosophy
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The Disappointment of Art
"I'm ashamed to tell you I last week saw the Harry Potter play that is a sequel to the Harry Potter novel," he said. "It's like, even though the guy's dead, they do this all this time travel stuff." The idea that we can't even in minimal pop culture stories, try to tell something that goes beyond our sort of romanticized idea of when things are pretty great back in 1998? Look at how despairing that is!" He continued: "We just adopt this idiotic form of like just offensive existentialism and then just say, oh, the solution is just to be kind because we can't do anything about any of this".
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