>>758293The problem is that it's impossible for trivial, mass-produced art created by boardrooms to re-enchant the world. It needs to be special. 99% of the art that the average person engages with is forgettable even to them, and only the remaining 1% gives them a taste of what real creativity and talent can accomplish. Yet people experience this but don't break from their habits, they don't go on to pursue that magic in other places, at most they deify the one work of art that has ever done this for them and join obsessive fandoms, shutting their minds from everything else. And if you do break from the path, you're pretentious, because why can't you let people enjoy things??
(And yes, all of this is not materialist and the real Marxist take is that alienation is the problem, but I don't care.)