Comment by whilenot-dev
5 days ago
I think we need to start separating such concepts like entertainment from the ones of enjoyment, fascination, function, interest, satisfaction, beauty and the sublime a bit more. Art theory literally has books on these things, as they all fall under the topic of aesthetics. Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven?
I always care about the processes involved, especially if any human work is involved, from all its accuracies to its errors. For me, interesting things happen while we balance our understandings with a certain amount of holism and a certain amount of reductionism. Putting it on either side of the scale, like your holistic statements, is just pure ideology, and that doesn't hold any merit in reality and is honestly just bland, repetitive and boring.
> Do you really enjoy a frozen pizza from the oven at home in the same way as a freshly made pizza from an authentic pizza oven?
Yes absolutely. I even measure them on the same scale and sometimes the frozen pizza wins.
I’ve literally got an authentic wood brining pizza oven at home and it can cook some great pizza, but that doesn’t mean its output is somehow in an untouchable category it’s just food. Further, with access to the real thing novelty goes away and it needs to sand on its own.