On 10/10/09 04:57, Warp wrote:
>    Because appreciation of people's skills can give you a fuller entertainment
> experience. If you deliberately dismiss skill as an unimportant side feature,
> you are depriving yourself of a source of marvel and enjoyment.

	I don't accept that knowing the details of how something is made will 
make you necessarily be interested in it.

	As both of us have said, it's an art. And with that comes taste. Some 
(most?) people aren't going to be interested even if they know, and as 
with all art, that's absolutely fine.

>> At the end, what you're talking about is art,
>> and it's merely a matter of taste.
>
>    It's about enjoying art at its fullest.

	Which most people aren't that interested in doing - even for art forms 
they enjoy - and while I have no problems if you or others do want to 
take it to the next level, I see no problem with most people not bothering.

	There are 24 hours in the day. Appreciating one art to its fullest 
means less time to appreciate other art forms.

>>          But if he plays an incredibly difficult piece that doesn't sound at all
>> good (to me), I'm not going to admire it - because I'm not really into
>> how the music is made.
>
>    Who was talking about an unenjoyable piece of music?

	The analogy I made some messages ago was a comparison of a movie 
without CGI and a movie with CGI that resulted in a _better_ experience.

	I guess over here the more analogous situation would be the music you 
discussed vs much better music that isn't hard to produce.

>>          Sure. If you admire that stuff.
>
>    I think you are depriving yourself of a source of enjoyment by deliberately
> finding the skills required to create the art "boring" and "uninteresting".

	Sure. We all do it. I know people out there who literally memorize 
books. That takes skill. If you don't look into that stuff and admire 
it, you're depriving yourself of a source of enjoyment. Then there's 
knitting. Have you considered that? And of course, there's all kinds of 
traditional music in all parts of the world. Do you plan to know how 
each of those instruments work?

	I could go on and on about various forms of art that you're likely 
depriving yourself of. But somehow I suspect you don't actually mind 
that you're doing it.

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