Something that doesn't get acknowledged nearly enough these days is art through adversity.
Most of the greatest creatives the world has ever known were broken, half-mad, perhaps even sick individuals. There is a mania to such people that the normal everyday person can't comprehend.
They feel and see inspirations and visions brought on by hardship and pain. They are like steel brought to a fine edge by heating, hammering, and honing.
The vast majority of people, safe, comfortable, bland, wouldn't want to go through the cycle of breaking and beating that real artists endure.
Look at Poe and Lovecraft, absolutely bonkers as individuals, but their writings continue to inspire more than a century later.
It's why nepo-baby corporate slop is so worthless. Those "creatives" didn't earn their positions, they didn't suffer for their art. It's soulless and uninspired because most of them think hardship and human suffering is soggy avocado toast and the maid taking a personal day off.
(Granted, for every episode like Tapestry there was some stinker of a Crusher/Beverly episode. It wasn’t all great, but even the bad episodes were entertaining!)
It really sucks that young people don’t get to have a Trek that asks big questions and try to do something more than just be slop.
Great piece, but it has a slight problem--Q wasn't really there. This is NOT a Q episode, since those ALWAYS have "Q" in the title. This is Pusscard realizing what a wuss he's become, even if he only knew it subconsciously.
Man can endure almost any how as long as he has a why. - paraphrased from Nietzsche
We do not have a crisis of suffering in Christendom, but a crisis of meaning. And no matter how much we reduce suffering, without meaning we go mad.
Something that doesn't get acknowledged nearly enough these days is art through adversity.
Most of the greatest creatives the world has ever known were broken, half-mad, perhaps even sick individuals. There is a mania to such people that the normal everyday person can't comprehend.
They feel and see inspirations and visions brought on by hardship and pain. They are like steel brought to a fine edge by heating, hammering, and honing.
The vast majority of people, safe, comfortable, bland, wouldn't want to go through the cycle of breaking and beating that real artists endure.
Look at Poe and Lovecraft, absolutely bonkers as individuals, but their writings continue to inspire more than a century later.
It's why nepo-baby corporate slop is so worthless. Those "creatives" didn't earn their positions, they didn't suffer for their art. It's soulless and uninspired because most of them think hardship and human suffering is soggy avocado toast and the maid taking a personal day off.
You said it!
Modern Trek is worthless because it’s written by worthless nepo babies, and retards who think “Resisting Trump” is an important, existential crisis.
Well put.
"O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?..."
Wow… Sometimes I forget how awesome TNG was.
(Granted, for every episode like Tapestry there was some stinker of a Crusher/Beverly episode. It wasn’t all great, but even the bad episodes were entertaining!)
It really sucks that young people don’t get to have a Trek that asks big questions and try to do something more than just be slop.
I love your first paragraph.
How can we truly enjoy the peaks if we’ve never experienced the valleys.
That which does not kill me, only makes me stronger.
Sorry. Enough rephrasing of your original material.
Nice piece.
The modern audience hates us. To them we are a drug cartel but instead of cocaine we provide the Truth and Reality
Great piece, but it has a slight problem--Q wasn't really there. This is NOT a Q episode, since those ALWAYS have "Q" in the title. This is Pusscard realizing what a wuss he's become, even if he only knew it subconsciously.