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Ep. 40: Truth and Beauty

Young Heretics

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Cardy Bees Wop Is a Degraded Piece of Art

A lot of the art that we've talked about deals with some of the darkest parts of human nature. This is what art has a responsibility to do, no matter how bleak or sexually explicit it is. The reason wap is bad is because it conveys degraded and degrading sexual behaviour as if it were fun. In reality, especially if you don't have untrammelled sexual energy released for everyone in a humiliating way, will only lead you to misery. And so if you don’t convey that in the art that you make about sexuality, you're not being honest. You're misleading, and you're separating the the pleasure of art from the instructive capacity of art.

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