
Bastardizing Beethoven, Mangling Mozart
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The Importance of Rembrandt
The West only applies this deconstructive critique of dissolving an aesthetic experience into a predictable, self-flagellation of colonialism to itself. I don't think it's possible to appreciate art if you're trying at the same time to fill your mind with every imaginable sociopolitical lesson associated with the society around it. This is a form of bizarre cultural suicide and self-cancellation.
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