1/ new Moldbug piece https://americanmind.org/features/conservatism-in-the-bronze-age/the-deep-state-vs-the-deep-right/ … I love this > Art...aims at supreme aesthetic excellence. It does not even deign to notice its audience. One thing I disagree with many of the pulprev, etc. people is "we give the audience what they want" I, for one, do NOT.
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5/ When I deliver a thing, it will find an audience. That audience may be zero people, or it may be 200 million. (So far, it's at the "rounds to zero" end of that continuum). But that's OK.
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6/ It would be wonderful if readers enjoy my novels, but I am not writing for the readers. I am writing for arete. Moldbug, as usual, is right.
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7/ yep, I thought of this earlier and decided not to include it in the thread bc "no one will question me on THAT" (sigh) yes, art has to imagine / posit / create a standard of merit, which is more or less synonymous with an audience >>>https://twitter.com/random_eddie/status/1187479777902551051 …
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8/ So I tended to think along lines of "well, if Heinlein, Niven, Stephenson, and a variant of me who hadn't written this novel were to read this novel and discuss it, what would they call out as delightful? and what as disappointing?" goal: maximize former, eliminate latter
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