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Originally Posted by Dr. Eugene Felikson

and reeealllly can't stand the elitist attitude in any art discussion whatsoever.

the elitist attitude is central to the art world unfortunately. art is usually made by outsiders who after being marginalized by society have no better idea than to create exclusionary circles off their own marginalization.

then come the students, and the aspirational middle classes, and the rich patrons, to signal their aesthetic virtue to the rest of the herd by participation in these circles, and kurt eats lead pellets.

the anthropological question for me is—do the elitists enjoy art for whatever they find in the art itself? or is it more for the ego gratification of thinking they are one of the special few with access to the secret society of esoteric knowledge? i think probably both, but there are also a lot of people for which it’s mostly the second—the precious precious posers.

either way, humans are insufferable apes. can’t way till they’re all extinct.