[HN Gopher] Goya: Bearing True Witness
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       Goya: Bearing True Witness
        
       Author : druther
       Score  : 52 points
       Date   : 2022-06-02 16:31 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | bambax wrote:
       | > _Scary, selfish, violent, superstitious, and frail: that is
       | humanity._
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       | This quote is from the middle of the article, when it pivots and
       | tries to demonstrate that Goya didn't grow into a pessimist but
       | was somehow one from the start. Or something. The point of the
       | article isn't very clear, to me at least. Goya was a witness
       | "clumping", and clumping is inherently unstable. And so is life?
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       | In any case, it's hard to look away from the painting of Saturn
       | Devouring His Son, as is hard to escape the observation about the
       | evils of humanity. Maybe that vision was with Goya from the
       | start, or maybe it came to be in his later years. But now it's
       | there.
        
         | bambax wrote:
         | > _Goya was a witness "clumping"_
         | 
         | *to Sorry.
        
         | novosel wrote:
         | Well,it looks like the author was going to make some kind of a
         | statement, or a ,,move" into the final argument, but the line
         | of reasoning was cut off. I rather liked the pyramidal-
         | clumping-inherent-instability concept. But, just when it was
         | outlined, it ended. I was not looking for a cheap punchline,
         | but a move at least, or a pointer towards something...
        
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