People who think that art or anything made by man needs to serve a vital philosophical purpose in order to be important and worth defending.
I remember a white-guilt ridden cuck I used to know (he LITERALLY was a cuckold so I'm not even saying that out of spite) who was saying we should have made better use of the internet and that if in a hypothetical scenario we had to stand before God and defend the printing press or the internets' existence that would we choose to use cook books and porn as our number one justification.
Of course, he never actually tried to inflict using social change himself using the internet despite having a limitless amount of free time but that's beside the question.
I straight up asked him "what the fuck is wrong with cook books and porn?" and pointed out the practicality of learning to make food and porn helping quell sexual violence in society.
Of course he only had copes but he seems to think the only thing that makes art endearing is if it's philosophical, and more specifically, politically.
Which to me is fucking retarded.
Comedy is usually completely devoid of serious existential thought, and even if comedic media has a meaning, it's usually tacked on.
Genre pictures are great for escapism and expressing imaginative thought.
There's plenty of "pointless" books, movies, songs and inventions that don't answer any great questions or promote social change but still do society much more good than any psuedo-intellectual propaganda ever could.
The idea that art has to have a very specific purpose in order to be of value is what is killing mainstream entertainment and the internet. People don't need to be thinking of every single fucking problem in the world all of the time, especially for people that don't neccessarily give a shit about them either. These people are so self-aggrandizing they can't for a moment realize that other people don't want to live in shit like they do.
Sorry for the long rant but I really, truly despise that notion. It's funny because it's only ever put forth by worthless shitty human beings that can't be bothered to fix their own problems or do any good for the world themselves. Who'd have thought that people that don't understand the value of entertainment and reprieve were also all terminally miserable and shitty to be around.
People who constantly cheat and fuck around, and the second they either get cheated on or find out nobody wants to be with them they start crying and making a fuss to anyone they think will listen.
I'll add to that anyone who somehow has to try to make it about """their""" turmoil afterwards.
There's been so many times I encountered a dude cheating who when I asked the reason they used "the depression" as a crutch and tried to make it into how it was something "on both sides" in order to seem less like an obvious sack of shit, but make themselves into a bigger one in the process.
Same goes for women who miraculously cheated and then would bring up to everyone how much they hate their ex and how abusive they were. When asked for an example of the abuse it's usually a list of copes that boil down to "he didn't indulge me enough".
I get people make mistakes and life is complicated but just be honest that you fucked up or were unhappy with where you were in life, don't become a bigger cunt by blaming your spouse for your infidelity.