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Does being this rude normally work well for you in society? > What you've written, though, is a very, very lazy critique of art appreciation. No it isn't, bec
by yakshaving_jgt 4y ago
Does being this rude normally work well for you in society?
> What you've written, though, is a very, very lazy critique of art appreciation.
No it isn't, because I haven't written a critique at all. I shared a fairly simple opinion broadly in response to some people's reactions of some other people's negative reactions to this work.
> You make a real juvenile start just calling it "snobbery,"
The ad hominem here is inappropriate.
> I'm sure Centre Pompidou is objectively "way more interesting" than the Louvre, why does the Louvre even exist? Thanks for clearing that up.
Objectively? How have you read a position of objectivity into my comment? This is a discussion about art, which is inherently subjective.
> What, did you go to Paris once and have a bad time?
I love Paris. I haven't the slightest clue where you got this idea.
> So: why should we--why should anyone--care about your half-arsed opinion? ... and why should I respond?
Good question. Why did you respond?
> therefore people who do understand that thing are, what, somehow insulting you?
No. I have neither said nor implied that. You should try interpreting other people's comments more charitably in future.
> Just shut up. Let people appreciate things and shut up.
These words — and most of your words that precede them — are entirely inappropriate for this forum.
If you would like to attack me personally, I'd be happy to share my personal phone number with you and you can say all of this to my face.
- dang 4y agoPlease don't post in the flamewar style to HN, regardless of how bad another comment is or you feel it is. Please especially avoid the tedious tit-for-tat flamewar thing. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- youor 4y ago
- widjit 4y agoI would ask if throwing out unfounded opinions normally works well for you in society, but I suspect it probably does. For the record, I reserve rude comments for the internet. I don't want to have a phone call with you about your boring, detrimental attitudes towards art and other people's appreciation of it. I go out of my way to inject myself into discussions exactly like this one because, as I said, I repeatedly see engineering-brained people (who have a lot of sway) going out of their way to deride Other People's Good Time, and I want you to stop doing it. Let people enjoy things, it doesn't hurt you. Leave them alone.
- tremon 4y agoI haven't written a critique at all. I shared a fairly simple opinion You shared a negative opinion, and did so in writing. Perhaps you wouldn't call it a critique because you didn't use sound reasoning, but I would call that defense critique snobbery: you still dismissed other people's pastimes by invalidating their experience ("it's not that deep"). I suppose I'm deeply into music snobbery. I enjoy analyzing good pieces of music, and even use high-falootin' words like tritone, dominant, resolution or syncopation. And I enjoy sharing such an analysis with peers, it happens quite often that they see structures or patterns that I haven't noticed yet. Because for me, understanding the structure behind a good piece of art heightens my enjoyment.
- yakshaving_jgt 4y agoThe accurate use of technical terms wasn’t really what I had in mind when I used the word snobbery.