Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019)
by kthejoker2 on Saturday April 23, 2022 @09:02AM
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> Mozart also produced a lot of rubbish low brow humor, Shakespeare is full of cheap dirty jokes.
I want to stop you right here, this is a terrible argument with a false premise.
Those two men produced works of contemporary genius that have lasted the test of time.
They are not well known now or in their day because they were lowbrow or made the (occasional!) childish joke. They are well known now and in their day for their transcendence of their respective art form.
They were never viewed as "entertainment for children" like comic books, Pokemon, Lego, etc.
Nobody would look at a 40 year old man in 1820, 1920, or 2020 collecting Mozart sheet music or Shakespeare playbills as being an infantilized man-child.
I want to stop you right here, this is a terrible argument with a false premise.
Those two men produced works of contemporary genius that have lasted the test of time.
They are not well known now or in their day because they were lowbrow or made the (occasional!) childish joke. They are well known now and in their day for their transcendence of their respective art form.
They were never viewed as "entertainment for children" like comic books, Pokemon, Lego, etc.
Nobody would look at a 40 year old man in 1820, 1920, or 2020 collecting Mozart sheet music or Shakespeare playbills as being an infantilized man-child.
They are qualitatively different.