Nice, here is your "didn't lift his ass off the couch to stop a fascist dictator from taking power" award. Congratulations!

Tolstoy is antythetical to anything pagan, simple as. If you haven't read the originals, like i did, and want a comparison of a more "western complexion", see puritan colonizers of new england. Basically same beliefs, Tolstoy was just more radical and more pacifist about it.

Tolstoy was a radical life and beauty hating, wife beating christian fundamentalist tho, respuctfully, i don't feel that's a fitting quote.

Also, he's like, basically a christian nationalist and severely influenced following generations of russian fascists

Unfortunately, you are wrong. If a nazi wrote something you read, you are reading nazi fiction, however hard you cope. You really can't separate the goose from the eggs.
You are free to provide examples, ofc, but in my experience, the more diligent your analysis, the more author you see everywhere

Are you going to do something about it? Or are you going to "talk about the obvious"?

Dems dont do shit lmao

Well, if stealing is an artwork, then the author should be... well, maybe not dead, but at least in jail for a long time)

The fellas at openai must have imported the databases filled with millions of stolen digtal artworks into the learning algorythm by accident then, huh

#stopAI

It's precisely because people, internalizing the death of the author as a concept, forget that media is art and art is an expression of the author(s) - that we have shit like generative ai and corporate slop media

"Outcome is more important than intent" is an unprovable moral judgment i harshly disagree with when dealing with art, a form of human expression.

Look at AI "art"- it has the outcome, but it has zero artistic intent. in fact, its intent is to steal. By your metric, it does not make a difference

Ai bad

Why is that statue even there? Was he amercan?? It's not like its a Washington or even fucking Jefferson statue or smt, the only contribution this guy had to the US history is to be the first european to conduct a genocide loosely around the continent. WTF

A locally forged blade, ring, couldron is always imbued with the "soul" of a producer, which can, in fact be a negative - in general it has "baggage" - of which store bought item has none, its a blank slate, and you DO sometimes really want that for greater controll over ritual items' properties.

Shintō be like😁😁

I fucking love moss

Research, research, research, and then practice as close as possible to academic sources. The last thing i want to do is to profane my Ancestors and our Gods.