On: Can art still shock?

[quadrangle]

There's a distinction between "offend" and "shock".

[girvo → quadrangle]

Is there really though? I think not, personally, they seem like synonyms in practice as far as modern day "offence" and "shock" goes. See: any Twitter lynch mob.

[dagw → girvo]

If a Fox News talking head says something mildly islamophobic many people might be offended, but I doubt anyone will be shocked.

[Vaskivo → quadrangle]

They are different concepts but, in this context, they amount to the same.

There is no harm in being offended. There is no harm in being shocked. I want art that offends me. I want art the shocks me.