Read the full article which is published on Philosophy Bits (external link)“The American theater is ruled by an extraordinary, irrepressible zest for intellectual simplification. Every idea is reducible to a cliché, and the function of a cliché is to castrate an idea. Now, intellectual simplification has its uses, its value. It is, for example, absolutely indispensable to comedy. But it is inimical to the serious.”
— Susan Sontag, “Going to Theater, etc.”
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