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I'm convinced that Bo Burnham read this, had an existential crisis and wrote Art Is Dead.
Tolstoy is a firebrand here taking on the over sexualization and commercialization of all art. He is puritanical in his views but he makes some compelling arguments that art being the playground of the upper class denigrates its value because it has to reflect the moral decline of its elite backers. He would burn down the whole romantacy genre if he were alive today.
It's quite funny that he directly quotes Baudelaire and calls his poetry incomprehensible. He is also not a fan of Beethoven and Wagner. It's entertaining and I am here for all the hot-takes.
Tolstoy is a firebrand here taking on the over sexualization and commercialization of all art. He is puritanical in his views but he makes some compelling arguments that art being the playground of the upper class denigrates its value because it has to reflect the moral decline of its elite backers. He would burn down the whole romantacy genre if he were alive today.
It's quite funny that he directly quotes Baudelaire and calls his poetry incomprehensible. He is also not a fan of Beethoven and Wagner. It's entertaining and I am here for all the hot-takes.