| disolitude said: Reading this thread makes me realize that Roger Ebert was so right in saying games can't be art... Art can not be compared to another piece of art and proclaimed better. |
The Academy Awards, the Emmies, the Grammies, the BAFTAs, the Tonies and a multitude of fine art competitions and awards in many countries around the world where there is intense competition and voting and judging and winners declared, and prize money and/or trophies given out to the winners say
HELLO!
And then there are people who will endlessly argue about whether Beethoven or Mozart was the superior composer, or whether Manet or Monet was the better Impressionist, or whether Impressionism or post-Impressionism is the superior art movement.
You might think one piece of art cannot be compared to another and proclaimed better. But there are entire careers and parasitic industries built around making that very judgement in every art form you could name.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.” - Bertrand Russell
"When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace."
Jimi Hendrix
