I know. Which is why there are five poll options?Originally Posted by The Summoner of Leviathan
And Carny, in most definitions of Dionysian periods, pessimism is indeed one of their traits. We had the whole Memento Mori with the Medieval period, with Baroque later coming back to it, and then Romanticism was all about uprisings and fighting oppressors which can't be done before you acknowledge that there is an oppressor and that's bad. Romanticism especially, when I think about it, with the people's romanticizing (hehe) of the past, because everything now is bad, escapism to the realm of fantasy, again, for the same reason. Romanticism is all about that pessimism and nostalgia. Of course that doesn't mean all art from that period is that - far from it. But it's a general trend.
But later WWII happened and the Holocaust and this nice dichotomy kinda fell out the window.
Personally, I like to consider myself a post-modernist and think leaning completely on one over the other is kind of naïve
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