Post #3178181

Not quite a direct answer, but I feel like this world view is linked to seeing art primarily as a commodity rather than a way to express emotions. With expressive art, it doesn't particularly matter whether you write the millionth poem in a standard rhyme scheme and meter, so long as what you express comes across. But commodity art is explicitly 'clean', it does not carry a message or at least not a particularly complex/interesting message. And then, yeah, suddenly you ask yourself why would someone look at this particular drawing of a dragon, when there's been a million drawings of dragons before.