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_refugee_ · 3398 days ago · link · · parent · post: Dear Hubski, Is Art Subjective or Objective and how do we Determine Good Art?
It makes people feel safer if they can rank things, klein. It makes us think that the world is quantifiable, measurable, cut-out-and-sew-up-neatly-able. If we can say what makes good art we can effectively say "This is right" and "this is wrong" and nothing makes a person feel better than being right. Emotions are gooey and ooey and so we try to negate them, with discussions like "Can art be objective? What is good art?" Instead I guess we could all go around looking at things and reading things and then feeling the things those things make us feel, but that...that would be like acknowledging there is no universal truth. Maybe like Kim Davis admitting that other peoples' happiness and marriages don't impact hers. Maybe that's why.