bowsamic 3 days ago

Why is portraying perversion in art bad? I suppose you also hate Dante's Inferno for similar reasons?

This just seems a little strange to me, even the Bible portrays the dark aspects of humanity. What makes you think that in Blue Velvet they are portrayed for our enjoyment specifically?

You can't have a good philosophy, or as you say, have a "good tab", without understanding the bad. David Lynch is more ethical than you, I think, because he did not run away from the depraved but wanted to understand it

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MrMcCall 3 days ago

> I suppose you also hate Dante's Inferno for similar reasons?

I don't hate anything or anyone, because hate and rage are solely negative, but, I didn't bother reading that middle ages tripe any more than I read "Wuthering Heights".

That said, reading it is just one dimension, seeing and hearing it on a giant screen being portrayed by attractive people is three or four dimensions.

> David Lynch is more ethical than you, I think, because he did not run away from the depraved but wanted to understand it

I've seen "The World at War". The "Genocide" episode is the last time I wept, seeing a dumptruck full of bodies get dumped into a trench.

I understand it better than you, my friend, because I also know how to get to "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God." I'm certainly not there yet, but I've made some bit of progress, after much trial and error.

David Lynch and TM are literally the antithesis of that attainment. He wrote and directed BV and profited off it. I think Marc Maron once described a "comic" that took a shit on stage; that ain't art, that's just disgusting.

"What a fool believes." --Michael McDonald

bowsamic 3 days ago

I’m not sold. I think I’ll stick with my Godly ethics and I’ll leave you to your sin