Twinned With "was It Written On Drugs" For How Destructive And Limited A Way Of Interpreting Weird Stuff

I'd interpret this as: Ancient Greek aesthetic values still retain such a hold on our culture that we feel like Ancient Greek writing is good whereas the Hebrew Bible doesn't appear well written

(That being said, there are also aspects of Greek aesthetics that feel foreign to us)

so i'd read that the greek intellectual sphere had a pretty negative reaction to the *style* of the bible, when compared to the greek traditional religious works (i mean. obviously homer is not like the bible. but it is the closest approximation), which i assumed was some subtle poeticness i couldnt get without speaking ancient greek. but after listening to the odyssey, it makes a lot more sense. the odyssey is like...well written! its a good work of literature! and the bible just isn't that, at all. the bible is not that kind of work. obviously there are good *lines* in the bible. but at most there are good paragraphs. there are no good pages of the bible, where the whole thing is well written. its really like, 95% clunky. so if im an ancient greek, and im used to like, homer and hesiod, and then these guys come around touting their holy texts, and it poorly written, i would find it a pretty tough sell!

this implies that the redditor in question thinks only the Bach-style wigs are stupid and the Mozart-style wigs are actually cool

later i saw a post on reddit that said “the difference between baroque and classical music is whether it was composed by someone wearing a stupid wig”

while I don't have a total solution for this kind of thing, I believe that bad working practices are usually tied to aspects of the final work that I don't care much about -- visual polish, technical achievement, etc. so I feel optimistic that there is no contradiction between what is truly good and what is good for the creators' work lives

I think when collaborating, a small number of people can go to extreme effort and push at the boundaries of what is possible, but this is not a workplace and shouldn't be done when money and power is corrupting everything

don't care to comment on the AI controversy du jour except to briefly remark on labour practices in Studio Ghibli, so far as I know about them - it's complicated lol. they are infamously demanding employers (c.f. Oshii's Kremlin quote) and it's quite likely the workload at the studio during Princess Mononoke and Takahata's abusive treatment killed Yoshifumi Kondō before he could direct a movie, but also so far as I understand they're moderately less bad on the 'ludicrously shit pay and no job security' norm of the rest of the anime industry, traditionally keeping mostly permanent employees rather than relying on freelancers.

they also do tend to attract some of the absolute best people in the industry on a technical level, and notably they've been a recurring home for brilliant idiosyncratic artists like Shinya Ohira whose work wouldn't easily fit into the standard pipeline. there's a reason a lot of animators see working at ghibli as a high aspiration and it's not just the fame of miyazaki's work. of course, Ghibli as experienced by famous animators like Yoshinori Kanada or Shinya Ohira might be a different experience than Ghibli as experienced at the lower rungs.

still, I think animation at large, as a heavily passion-driven creative industry, has a really warped relationship with overwork - there's a kind of 'that sucks but also you gotta respect the results tho' sentiment that goes way, way beyond ghibli or even the anime industry. it's sacrifice logic. to claim you sacrificed x hundred hours on a piece is to claim that piece was worth more than anything else you would have done for those x hundred hours, and to claim the role of the madly passionate artist who puts it all into their work. notably the myth of Miyazaki himself focuses on how intensely he works on his projects, from the thousands of pieces he did at university right through to his elaborate storyboards and micromanaging style as a director.

don't quite know the way through that, tbh. I'm no more immune to that romance than the next sakubuta.

It's really hard to understand what is and isn't bodily autonomy when it comes to social pressures. Do people want to alter their bodies or are they being pressured into it... but really, there is no such thing as an authentic individual self that can make these decisions free of pressure. We are social pressure, it's part of us just like our bodies

People have noticed! My uninformed guess is that whoever is writing these is trying to like, emulate some kind of Chinese prose style that has lots of four-character phrases/proverbial allusions or something? And is using English figures of speech as an equivalent? But I can't read or speak any kind of Chinese so I don't know if that's a real feature of Chinese prose writing. It's just a vibe I get that this is a translation of something that hit different in the source language

flipping back and forth between the document i’m editing for work and the wikipedia page for cantonese opera like a kid hiding a comic book inside their textbook

if I ever upload art on here (unlikely) I want to draw this

Wait what if we did the regional miku thing with Calne Ca

due to current circumstances the idea of art having a 'soul' and using 'soulless' as a pejorative has increased. Is it a good idea to tie creative value to this kind of mystical aura? It's not, and I don't mean that because it's supernatural but because it is exclusive and narrow.

In Ancient Egypt, they apparently believed in more than three 'souls.' Which one is blessing your art?

Will expand in a future post on the bio-essentialist and exclusionary core of the soul/soulless conflict

I'm staying subscribed to a repetitive anime channel that writes all its scripts with ai and recycles videos, out of spite for society

Romanticism (the art movement) is the enemy

The food post reminded me of when I was watching a stream that fredrik knudsen was on and he was talking about the juicero and then went on this rant about how the tech CEOs want to take the humanity out of your life but used making food as an example and how tech CEOs didn't understand the joy of making your own food and how only "tech bros" would enjoy the concept of instant meal pills and it felt like I was listening to a space alien talk. I dunno maybe if you're a youtube essayist who sets your own schedule you take joy in making your own meals but when you're coming home tired from work at 8PM sometimes gas station hot bar food is what you go for rather than making your own meal. Like hell yeah sometimes I would in fact like a pill that could act as every meal. Baffling 'to toil is to be human' moment!

i hate to tell people this but i would love instant meal pills. and i'm a very talented home chef and i love cooking (it's the only thing i will suffer through my arthritis to force myself to do nowadays).

what if it's not a guy at all up close. I'm thinking of the "kunekune" urban legend

This scene in the game makes me laugh...why is that dude falling forever...why can I make out that it's a tiny stick figure...