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Would the world be better if alcoholic and mentally ill artists sought treatment instead of creating "genius"?

Would the world have been better if sociopaths like Hitler and Napoleon became artists? Would the world have been better if VanGogh and Hemingway did not committ suicide? Would the world have been better if Joyce, Bukowski, and C㩬ine sought psychoanalysis instead of creating bad art?

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4 months ago
Despite being considered evil tyrants today, Napoleon and Hitler were considered geniuses in their times.


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Okay... I have had just about enough of that nonsense...

Go read some Ayn Rand and be objectively done with it already!

This kind of question is not a question at all, it's an opinion masked as a supposed fact. (which it most certainly is NOT a fact! Not at all.)

Insulting genius makes you look foolish. Not better than...and being so presumptious as to claim to know what genius is or isin't for everyone... doesn't make you look like Aristotle either...


You are not going to change the opinion of people who like it, or what they already know of it, by doing this... but you might change the opinion of someone who has not yet had a chance to read it for themselves and therefore decide for themselves if it is indeed great, or...


not so much... like you believe.

That is not the most intelligent thing in the world to do. Just shortsighted and selfish.

Just read the damn Joseph Campbell book I told you about if you really want to understand Joyce.

If you don't... keep it in the form of an opinion and not a fact!

You have to completely understand a thing from all sides to be able to deem it a fact , good or bad... You don't get it... no matter how much I try and help you so you don't have the right to say such things with such conviction... Not to anyone else anyway.

Napolean and hitler were not artists... Their's was political & tactic genius. and they were too...

Who else could sway the humanity and sensibilities of an entire nation into willing murder and justify it for ANY reason. But were they artists? Nope! Blood is not an artistic medium unless you're God!

And from the sound of things... You probably don't believe in that either so... If I may make a suggestion? Read the Fountainhead and let that be your understanding and be done with all of this Joyce beating...