• Mothra@mander.xyz
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    5 hours ago

    To save the parents the embarrassment of having to explain something they don’t understand.

    Don’t get me wrong, art can be just as awkward to explain but it is socially acceptable to chalk things you don’t understand to the artist’s creative whim

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      30 minutes ago

      Gravity was Newton’s creative whim, but Einstein looked at it and did a wild remix that more or less replaced it in the minds of scientists from then on