On: Halt and Catch Fire Syllabus

[pmiller2]

TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them. What's not to understand?

[buckminster → pmiller2]

> TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them.

So we don't need a warning when they do. What's not to understand?

[pmiller2 → buckminster]

Sometimes those things are unpleasant. Sometimes those unpleasant things are not necessary to enjoy the production. Again, what's not to understand?

[buckminster → pmiller2]

So you need a warning whenever art makes you feel something other than enjoyment. Now I understand.

[pmiller2 → buckminster]

I don’t think you do, given how I’ve broken it down to below ELI5 levels, and you’re still snarking at me, but, ok.

Additionally, you are quite wrong. I distinctly recall the first time I was ever literally moved to tears by music, and it was precisely when the choir sang their first note in A Survivor from Warsaw, op 46 by Arnold Schoenberg: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TbFVYbDuVg

Since then, I have been touched by sadness, beauty, anger, awe, and many other emotions as a result of experiencing art.