To live is to suffer...

[Mael]

Originally Posted by oats

I came in here to redeem my previous stupidity with a Henrich Ibsen quote:

("To live it to do battle with trolls
in the vaults of the heart and brain.
To write: that is to sit
in judgement over one's self.")

but this caught my attention. elaborate.

Well, firstly, you can't win a battle without an opponent (an opposing force). I suppose you can, but no-show wins aren't really wins at all. This represents suffering (rather, suffering represents opposition), and depending on the type of battle, it could be physical (i.e. MMA, Boxing, contact sports). Significance increases by the relation between opposing forces. It'd be more impressive for me to beat Beyond in his prime then R!canTheoryz. To be the best you got to beat the beat.

Aesthetics, however, seems to be an exception to this. Sort of an effortless, minimalistic beauty. Art, I suppose, represents this abstraction. Artists don't really have to "battle" other artists in order for others to be impressed by their work. This is a plane of existence where subjectivity makes the calls.

So I guess it's objectivity vs. subjectivity.