Soap Box! OK. Put aside the misogynistic, anti-semitic trolling of #TheLastofUsPartII, because, while watching self-hatred surface and play out loud is amusing, it's not constructive. (Although the art is having its intended impact on them, whether they know it or not.) Thread.
Human stories are meant to disturb the fuck out of you. Myths weren't written to comfort. Art should be uncomfortable, because it is revealing you to you. If it can entertain at the same time, that's swell, but that's not the purpose of it. Thread.
The purpose of art is to teach you how your humanity is the same as everyone else's. That there are things in the human experience that should strike chords within all of us and, thus, help us better understand ourselves and the human experience. Thread.
In so doing, art should provide an opportunity to become more empathetic to your fellow primates and make the world better because of it. Video Games are the first time in modern history where the platform allows you, as the audience, to be part of the performance. Thread.
Look around. We don't need art that makes us comfortable. We need it to wake us up and change us. Because we're fucking ourselves (and how) and have been for a long, long time. So, let the critics critic. I'm pretty sure #TheLastofUsPartII is precisely what @Naughty_Dog Thread.
and @Grosstastic and @Neil_Druckmann and the entire gang intended. The fact that it will make a fuckton of money means they get to keep making powerful, provocative, disturbing art for a long fucking time. Maybe it'll wake us all up. Here's hoping. XO
