Separate the Art from the Artist
No, this isn’t a post about the chaos of meaning and authorial intention. Or, then again, maybe it’s at least related to it. Today I want to talk about those peculiar readers who seem utterly unable to separate the art from the artist. But what does it mean, to separate the art from the artist? […]
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There are tragic elements in this—in the Aristotelian definition of hamartia as an instance of misjudgment (sometimes of transitory nature) resulting in disproportionate suffering.
What's also amusing—or, to put it this way, I choose to see it as amusing so that I won't shake my head in disbelief—is the way some folks judge people of other times based on contemporary standards. The recent revelations (of sort; it was common knowledge) about Martin Luther King Jr. have created quite a mess in the mind of some people who can't seem to fathom that people are complex.
Can you imagine if there were Twitter in WW2?
(Some have, actually)