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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
Shunning a fiction writer for his politics is like criticizing a string quartet composer for not being a positive thinker.
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This analogy is dreadful. It's so bad that I keep coming back to it, trying to make sense of what you've written.
Suppose you mean that writers are politically naive, then composers are optimistically naive? What!?
Suppose you mean that writers are inherently political. Then composers are inherently pessimists? What!?
Suppose you mean that writers are politically adept, then composers are masters of optimism? What!?
I can only conclude that you don't listen that much to classical music, and you thought you were being clever positing what you believed to be an oxymoron. For the above in order, counterexamples: (a) is just not logical, (b) Haydn, (c) Shostakovich. String Quartets are not intrinsically positive or negative, but instead run the whole gamut of emotional language, as they stand as the pinnacle of musical expression.