/lit/ - Literature

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>Or maybe I am trying to create my soul.
>By finding something eternal in myself.
>It is hard to ignore the world and the chatter.
>But I know my soul is not there.
Oh man. Okay, so a few thoughts. You raised a lot of interesting points in that thread you made. Points that led me to conclude that the distinction of art is ordained by the viewer. Whether the madman's diary is art or not depends on if readers find value in it. Seems like a shit metric, but I think its really simple as that. I remember reading an interview from right after Evangelion ended and while most of the discussion was celebratory, Anno was a lot less enthused and kept talking about ashamed he felt that the series wound up being so "selfish" in the end, he was apologizing and regretful for having put so much of himself in it. In fact I think PART of the reason Rebuild even exists is because he was attempting to "fix" Eva by putting less of himself in it, to the point he barely even directed them. But all that "self" that was originally put into Eva is why its still discussed over 25 years later, resonates with people across the globe, and is one of the biggest most influential franchises ever.

I think, honestly, its a gamble. And if you want to create its just a risk you're forced to take. You will be under the scrutiny of others. And environmental factors play into it as well. Time, place, the state of the world -- all these things matter. Tarantino thrived because of when he made his movies. It was the right work at the right time. I think he's a disgusting freak and a hack, I'm sure MANY other people feel that way too, but to the general populace he's a genius. Because he got in at the right time. Robert Crumb drew racial caricatures, incestuous smut comics, and had at least two popular series with rapist main characters. In one comic, one of the aforementioned rapist characters turns his girlfriend into a living sex doll, and then gives her to his friend to let him rape her. That rapist character made a cameo appearance in a kid's movie earlier this year and Crumb is often hailed as a feminist.