223. Paul Bloom on the pleasures of suffering and the meaning of life
The Michael Shermer Show
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What Is the Appeal of Negative Art?
There's this evolutionary psychi idea that certain art forms are more appealing to us, the symmetrical, or they have a certain a ratio of shapes and so on. Can miller: Some of the greatest art of all time is not pleasant or pleasurable,. And his example is picasos grand granica - one of the greatest paintings of all time. They're not pleasurable to look at ther they evoke other kinds of emotions. In fact, e what got be started would have always been interested. I i fact, we take pleasure from hard work that's difficult to look at. We wetake pleasure from stories that have sad parts, that scare us, that upset us.
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