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0 pointsJonnieCache14y ago0 comments

As a counterpoint, I would encourage you to absorb things that are utterly useless, such as poetry. One must remember that not everything needs a practical function to justify itself. "Enriching the human spirit" sounds handwavey, but it's a very real and important idea.

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ianstormtaylor14y ago· 1 in thread

Or you could approach poetry with critical thought and understand how and why it is made, perhaps even improving your own writing and reasoning skills at the same time, instead of treating it as "utterly useless".

JonnieCacheOP14y ago

I meant it in the sense of the Oscar Wilde quote: "All art is useless." It's what distinguishes it from worldly concerns. Its uselessness confers on it a nobility, if you will.

I guess what he really meant is that art is purposeless, rather than useless, but the statement doesn't have the same impact that way.

Obviously this is but one way to conceptualise it.

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