...without fail, I always have one class that I fear and dread for some reason or another. This semester it was Aesthetics and Interpretation, which I've mentioned before, but I'm not writing this post to complain about how very stupid it is that we have to write a twenty-page paper and read countless ramblings of deceased philosophers just so we can ruin a perfectly entertaining story by dissecting it and analyzing it. Oh, no. It's worse than that.
Upon responding to the essay questions assigned for our take-home midterm exam, I realized that I have somehow come to not only understand but appreciate the process of "reading between the lines"!
"That's good!" some of you might say, or "Isn't that the point?" those more cynical among you might scorn, but-but-but let me explain something! I have been fighting this acceptance of logic in art for years! In my world, logic in art was "the man" to whom we should stick whatever "it" is!
What's worse is I've realized that these old, dry philosophers whom I've previously abhorred are not very different from me!--Well, to be respectful, I'll say I'm not that different from them.--Think about it! What do I do here? I write my ideas and musings down for people to read and agree or disagree with, and maybe even apply to their own lives. What did they do? They set guidelines for people to either agree or disagree with and apply to their own lives and arts if they chose to. So, you know what that means?...Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Nietzsche, and all of those men and women philosphs were...wait for it...it's worth it, I promise you...................BLOGGERS!
Short and sweet, but there it is! Thanks for stopping by! :)
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