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TallestSkil on scored.co
1 year ago10 points(+0/-0/+10Score on mirror)
>For Kundera's narrator, this is the definition of kitsch: an "aesthetic ideal" which "excludes everything from its purview which is essentially unacceptable in human existence.”
Oh noooooooo! How horrible! Fictional narratives in which the abject, unimaginable horrors of physical existence are not portrayed, giving people a reprieve from the nightmare that is life? WE CAN’T HAVE THAT! HOLD UP A FUCKING MIRROR TO THE WORLD AS IT IS AND *NEVER* LET IT BE ANY BETTER!
Oh noooooooo! How horrible! Fictional narratives in which the abject, unimaginable horrors of physical existence are not portrayed, giving people a reprieve from the nightmare that is life? WE CAN’T HAVE THAT! HOLD UP A FUCKING MIRROR TO THE WORLD AS IT IS AND *NEVER* LET IT BE ANY BETTER!