I feared briefly for Nabokov—it wouldn’t be the first time an illiterate mob came to burn his books—but I realized that today’s inquisitors are too illiterate to have him in their sights.https://twitter.com/laurakipnis/status/941536500734464000 …
The point of art is not educative delection, entertainment or moral betterment, but the capture of conscious states. The economic value and social utility of a work of art is irrelevant to the art itself.
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I was (disapprovingly) referring to the philistine purging of morally insufficient writers, actors, directors that is currently ravaging the US.
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