"Sex scenes in serious novels are unnecessary" always makes me laugh Well sure The serious novels are themselves unnecessary The whole damn artistic endeavor is unnecessary, that's what makes it an artistic endeavorhttps://twitter.com/remembrancermx/status/1384209466371895297 …
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And yeah sure all of this is technically true No individual one of these things is "necessary", of course there's great stuff out there that doesn't have any of it But consistently distorting artwork to avoid all your personal taboos, for the most part, creates corny garbage
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For some reason I latched on so hard to that line from Eminem's "The Real Slim Shady" "Will Smith don't gotta cuss in his raps to sell records Well I do So fuck him And fuck you too"
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As a repressed Christian teen that one line embodied so many bottled up feelings at once, you probably can't imagine it It pops into my head any time some concern troll asks if something is "necessary"
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"No, but it gives me pleasure, so fuck off"
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It's like saying sugar is not necessary for a food. Like, sure, A food.
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Along with that Eminem quote I always keep in mind Diogenes and his mastery of what the ancient Greeks called chiasmus
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Wow, the story of my cousin getting shot twice at point-blank range over a few dollars in a nylon wallet wasn't necessary? But.. then.. Why has nothing changed? If it wasn't necessary to SEE IT and FEEL IT to change your mind about the violence of this culture and take action/s
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