• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    I reject the “separate art from artist” treat defending mantra and as time goes on I’m more loud and direct about it.

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        If you separate art from the artist, what the fuck are you left with?

        Generally, what a typical treat defender wants you to see: just spectacle, noise, sensation. No subtext. Nothing else derived from it but cheap brain chemical releases.

        That’s bullshit, of course. They absorb the messages even if they’re not aware of what they’re absorbing… or don’t care.

        For example, especially now, the kind of people that continue to run interference for Kanye West tend to be soaked in the same kind of predatory narcissistic mentality as their would-be god… if it wasn’t there already.