[ SECRET POST #5725 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5725 ⌋

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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

If it helps, Tarkathe Otter was written before the whole Nazi sympathiser switcheroo, when he was still in the "war is shit, I had more in common with the German infantryman that either of us had with the people who conscripted us to due in the trenches" phase of his life.

I mean, it probably doesn't because it sounds (from Wikipedia) that he became thoroughly unpleasant and full on Fascist.

[(Anonymous)]

*die the trenches, sorry.

[kallanda_lee]

I think that, especially as time passes, many people just turn out to be problematic. Which is why I do try to separate the art rom the person in most cases.

[(Anonymous)]

Yes, this is true, but there are also different degrees of problematic here. It's not entirely a question of standards changing and time passing. Henry Williamson was notably more problematic and shitty than his contemporaries, in a way that is not a product of changing social mores. Like, yes, many if not most upper-middle and upper-class British people between the wars were anti-semitic to some degree. But most of them were not Nazi sympathizers let alone active fascists.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, reality is people are flawed AF. And complex.
I've lessened my rabbit hole searches on creators/figures I like a lot. Not so much to spare myself the pain of knowing someone who created something I love is a shitty/not-good person, but more understanding that the art doesn't always have to be so closely associated with the artist.
There are intersections, and it's worth discussing flawed/awful people who created great/consumable art, but I understand the bulk of art is to experience the art more than hyperfocus on the artist/creator.