So there's two possibilities, one is that artistic quality is objective and the other subjective If it's objective, then as we learn more about it and we get better over time - new art is better than old art just as new science is more accurate and new technology works betterhttps://twitter.com/iridienne/status/1290750884607954944 …
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If it's subjective, then, well, it's subjective I can like old stuff, you can like new stuff, neither of us is wrong But it will remain an empirical fact that the newer something is, the more currently living people will like it, because it was addressed to their tastes
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Either way, current relevance matters, art gets stale over time, and almost all artistic work is eventually forgotten That's how it's supposed to go ("This too shall pass")
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I think the second POV is truer than the first, but people who hold the first POV and DON'T think that, if objective standards of quality exist, we get objectively better and better over time are assholes
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If you believe in "real, objective truth" about anything and yet you don't believe we learn more over time and are therefore better than our ancestors then what's the fucking point Of anything It's not respect to your elders, it's insulting them by saying their work was wasted
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The Golden Age narrative - things used to be perfect in the past and then they've steadily decayed since then, every generation can't help but be worse than the previous - is very culturally common, many of us instinctively fall back on it in hard times
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And it's cowardice It's shirking your own responsibility to learn more, work harder, and try to be better than your parents It's a way to make your decision to give up sound like a noble universal truth
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