Bears repeating: Creativity that satisfies & affirms your world view is Entertainment. Creativity that challenges & disrupts your world view is Art.
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Noooope
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What do you know? That's Neil deGrasse Tyson, you're Just Some Guy!
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Last time I checked his degree wasn't in art.
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It's a joke, buddy. His Twitter handle is "Just Some Guy."
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Yeah he thought about this for like 2 seconds and just thought it sounded good, which explains how reactionary it is.
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Hmm, it's almost like
@neiltyson has sought out a statement that satisfies and affirms his world view, rather than responding to a statement that challenges and disrupts his world view. -
Or maybe the ultimate problem with this absolutist definition of art is that it's coming from someone with a mind closed to open-ended questions, especially questions that artists themselves have approached and failed to define absolutely, for millenia.
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But what if my creative “entertainment”, affirming my world view, challenges someone who doesn’t have the same views

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Good point.
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The only dichotomies are false dichotomies.
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This is a moment in which your ego got the better of you.
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