/lit/ - Literature

>>5229436
>>5229457
There virtually an infinite amount of ways you could develop a criteria in which to grade a piece of art.

For example, you could create a grading scheme that comprises things like "skill" and under skill you can grade the amount of dexterity it takes to accomplish such amazing brush strokes/chisels/etc--and factor that in.

That's just one component, you can measure it in very many different ways, also depending on the art as well.

There are a myriad of criteria you could come up with, all that measure purely objective observations that could be proved with scientific and mathematical means.

The subjective components are important too, but you guys want me to demonstrate if it is possible at all to evaluate a work of art in unbiased and objective ways.

There is, and I'm sure they would bring in positive results.

Go ahead, try to debate me.

You'll lose, or resort to a red herring veering our argument into semantics or argue the nature of subjectivity vs objectivity.

That's the debating style of cowards.

Remember stick to the topic under discussion.

Why is writing terrible all over the place?

For example, take the Simpsons.

Used to be genius, now it's stupid as hell.

What the fuck is going on? Music too, is stupid as hell. Movies too are stupid as hell.

TV shows are waxing and waning, still decent.

More importantly, the books coming out now are absolute shit (except McCarthy's The Road).

Fine art now is incredibly stupid.

We are experiencing free-fall degradation in all areas of art.

The only place left with talent is like, deviant art and graffiti artists.

Wtf.

A man who made a kickstarter to make a potato salad got 50k
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/324283889/potato-salad

What the fuck kind of world am I living in!??!

Genius and virtue is being trampled on from above and below.

FUCCCCKKKK! Latter-Roman empire decadence suckkkks!

Dad reads travel stories, war stories but most specificly history books about World War 2. Always fucking World War 2. What the fuck dad, grandpa didn't even fight in that war you didn't have jack shit to do with it.

Mom reads the words on the television

They're happily divorced.