Like the Game What Must Not Be Named Lest We Begin The Discourse Anew isn't novel in any way structurally or in its beats, it's basically standard prestige television. It is only novel in who gets to be the star. And that's not without worth! But it's not "novelty" in that sense
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I'm just saying it's not just familiarity or literacy or sophisticated understanding that shapes whether one revels in the repetition and playing with a familiar beat or learns to hate all of it - the jaded perspective is not more sophisticated or literate, it has external causes
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And what I read into your tweets, perhaps erroneously, was the declaration-as-fact that people familiar with the art no longer enjoy it and become inevitably jaded, and that is just demonstrably untrue.
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I mean, deconstruction/subversion isn't an ivory tower thing anymore, if it ever was - the new contrarian ivory tower hot take is to get mad about deconstruction and treat it as just another layer of illusion
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Deconstruction has been thoroughly commercialized, it's very popular, the normies love it Frozen is one of the highest grossing animated movies in history and the big selling point is "She doesn't marry the prince at the end"
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