It doesn’t have to make sense to others, but if the thing that makes you happy is harmful to others, like eating your own child (which is an… interesting? choice to illustrate this specific point. E: and as pointed out bellow, a deliberate one), others absolutely do have a right and even responsibility to stop you.
I think in this case it is more apt to realize that the artist painted this on the wall of his dining room in his house where he never had any visitors. The definition of “happiness” in this context would have to be a tad…malleable though.
Although he initially decorated the rooms of the house with more inspiring images, in time he painted over them all with the intensely haunting pictures known today as the Black Paintings. Created without commission for private display, these paintings may reflect the artist’s state of mind late in a life that witnessed the violence of war and terror stoked by the Spanish Inquisition.
(go vegan)
This is actually ridiculous
- People are frequently judgmental of what others enjoy, and it can be harmful (kinkshaming) but it can also just help us find more enjoyable things to do, it can feed ego and hedonism.
- Other groups of people love to share details about what they enjoy.
“You shouldn’t care what other people think” is almost literally bad advice because its so vague.
Perhaps… You can choose to ignore what others say about the things you enjoy, you can decide to keep it a secret, or you can use other people to help find answers to life’s never ending question: “How can I have a good time?”
I don’t know what it is about this painting, but it’s always caught my interest.
Nerdwriter (on YouTube) has a good essay on this series of paintings. I like a lot of his art videos.
Saturn’s face always looked very unhappy to me in this picture, like, he is deeply in anguish about what he’s doing. How can anyone see anything other than horror and sadness in those eyes?
Mostly yes, but with some imagination he could also have the expression of someone being caught mid act, and kind of having a scared/awkward ‘ow fuck, what do I do now’ look.
It could also represent a sort of bewildered frenzy where he’s just overwhelmed by compulsion.
Or possibly the moment where he realized something slipped down his windpipe.
Its fear. He does not particularly want to eat his children, but he fears the curse of succession. Any child of his is an immediate and grave threat to his dominion.
I dont see horror and sadness. I see more of like a cat looking at me like “dont mind me” but watching me regardless.
Counterpoint, liking children
Couterpoint to eating human bodies?
Parents: I don’t think so
I truly truly want to understand this.
I cannot understand what motivates this post.
I’m obsessed with typewriters and I do not give a fuck if it makes sense to anyone else.
Honestly.
So I simply don’t understand why anyone cares if something that makes them happy makes sense to anyone.
What is this preoccupation?
Truly.
Example: I’m pretty certain even this question will not make sense to some people. That’s not on me. It’s on them.
But for the author of the meme and for the people that this query makes sense to: why?
Why this meme.
Is it saying that if I am an ancient and eternal god and it makes me happy to eat my children, it is permissible for me to eat my children?
Because regardless of how happy it makes you to eat your children, it’s not okay.
And clearly I get that the idea here is not the promotion of children eating, but I have zero idea what it is promoting, supporting, or critiquing. Consider me out of the loop. What does this mean, and more importantly, why?
This meme makes me happy…
Will you help me understand it?
This meme was made by me to make fun of a motivational quote by taking it literal to the point of absurdity.
It’s okay, OP, it makes me happy too.
