Having art reach us emotionally feels wrong where our society doesn't have cultural infrastructure in place to process that outside of sex.
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Replying to @chenoehart
(I mean we rationalize it in dif. ways ourselves, but we don't know how to form communities with other people in terms of interpreting it.)
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Replying to @chenoehart
I'm not 100% sure exactly what that means, or whether or not I fully agree with it.
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Replying to @chenoehart
And maybe could be also extended to cover several different kinds of sensory experiences as well, like food or exercise.
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Are you able to elaborate on this idea of society lacking the infrastructure — I'm not totally following but I'm intrigued by your argument
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I am too. Might also have something to do with rules for acceptable emotional expression being defined by gender. (Cc @ubsanitizer)
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Or another common thread could be intimacy. Expressing emotion or conceptual influence = a kind of mental intimacy we don't often share.
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Like society hasn't created other kinds of fully acceptable rituals for personal emotion and vulnerability to be expressed...
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I don't think that "society" is the right entity since the majority is oblivious to most art. You have to find your people, not your society
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Replying to @Plinz @chenoehart
Do we think though that the avenues for finding ones people are not well lit?
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