/lit/ - Literature

>>5832349
"Sophistication" is a made up thing by the various intellectual elite of a given era to pretend to have distance from the plebeians, its completely arbitrary. If art gives people utility, or evokes thought, or inspired positive change in society its source is meaningless. Does it matter if a golden age is inspired because a thinker read a bunch of classic ideologues like Aquinas or Descartes, or is inspired because a person really likes cute girls doing cute things and aspired for a world in which cute girls do cute things?

Although there may be different levels of skill in its creation which certainly often reflects its potential value, art can't be compared in such a way (not to lend any credence to modernists who shit out eggs on paper and then decry classics).