• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    Okay, I feel like we’re doing a motte and bailey here. I’m not arguing that art is never mimetic.

    There’s a lot of diversity in the stories we tell. If we were “simply copying as a form of craft,” where is this diversity coming from? Do you mean something different than what I’m interpreting?

    Keep in mind, the thing that I am contending with is that the nature of people retelling stories is not unlike a robot that lacks a conscious. I think this is downright silly.