-- Luke
Quoting andie nachgeborenen <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com>:
>
> Sure, but we don't have to agree with the morals for
> it to be good art. The Illiad holds up an ideal that
> we find repugnant. The Divine Comedy is based in
> premises most of us reject. Actually, really good
> didactic art is hard to find. Brecht comes to mind as
> the exception. Mostly preachy stuff is just a bore.
> What makes art interesting in part is that it shows
> you things and raises questions and possibilities that
> you might not have contemplated, which you might
> reject after getting a sense of them, but which it
> makes live for you. The point of Hamlet is not the
> dull slogan Revenge Is Bad, but the exploration of
> what it is like to be those people, driven as they
> are. No? jks
>
> --- > I could be wrong, but I think most good dramatic
> > writing/movies/television
> > provides some sort of compelling implicit commentary
> > on the question of how
> > we are to live. In other words, good art generally
> > moralizes.
> >
> > -- Luke
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