It's the inverse Goldilocks principle - "I want my shit to be TOO SMART or TOO DUMB for the normies Anything the normies think is just right, is bad" I think this is literally true, I think this particular kind of Film Twitter snob thinks "just right" calibration is inauthentichttps://twitter.com/DkLatta/status/1366389883380649986 …
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After all the dream of the New Soviet Man under communism, wildly unrealistic as it was, was still the dream of a hardworking normie New Soviet Man was shorn of selfish ambition and petty hatred but he still watched cheesy adventure movies with his family
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The idea of an all-hipster society is by definition impossible - hipsters *exist* only in contrast with normies - and the idea of everyone constantly "truly engaging" with "genuinely challenging, subversive art" is ridiculous when you think about it
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A blockbuster marquee advertising how unpopular the blockbuster on it is "Experience the same struggle to be heard from the margins of the discourse as all your family and friends"
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(I get the feeling a lot of these guys seriously dream of a society where the arts are being actively oppressed, where the big cinema has been shut down and there just are no blockbusters and the only movies that exist are "underground passion projects")
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Anyway people who think that editing yourself and accepting notes and "dumbing shit down" is what ruins art need to listen to "Putting It Together" from Sunday in the Park with George again and think about it (Is Sondheim classy enough for you all or what)
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Or, like, every single one of you motherfuckers saw Inside Llewyn Davis and got a huge boner for how
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"I refuse to change myself to make other people like me, it's beneath me" and "I am unhappy and resentful whenever other people don't like me" Well congrats, prepare to be unhappy and resentful your entire fucking life, for reasons you just clearly stated
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Other people are human beings with their own preferences they are entitled to So either play the music they want to hear if you actually want to make them happy Or play the music you want to hear and make yourself happy and ignore them
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But this toxic loop of chasing other people's approval *and pushing that approval away* - what Hannah Gadsby called "definitionally insane, to despise the one thing you desire most" - is a guarantee of failure Get the fuck over yourself
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So, for European academic leftists, the goal is that we change conditions so that "high art" (as a middle class European intellectual would define it) is still produced, but everyone is educated enough to appreciate it.
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