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As a rule, I avoid any text which, on the internet, purports to explicate the meaning of some work of art, high or low.

Even before large language models began remixing this drivel, it was drivel. There is no part of youtube more accursed than those videos which wish to tell me what some film or discerning work “means.”

One must elucidate such, if such exists, in oneself, and in the discussions of true critics. Never from that mumbling middlebrowery now being remixed into nonsense lowbrowery.




A whole generation has grown up on CinemaSins et al, and takes hermeneutics to mean finding continuity errors or plotholes.


Often there are references being made to things I am unfamiliar with. I don't think it's accurate to call all commentary about art "drivel"




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