Should art try to make society better?

Often we see some movie or book praised for “social statements”. Such movies and books have clear political and social message – claiming that they are trying to make society “better”. Are they? And should they?  Well, actually no, please, no – go to hell with such proposals. We’ve already reached the point where we have “left”…

Should art say something?

Do you know what PMSS is? Oh, it’s easy. It’s “profound meaning search syndrome”, “синдром поиска глубинного смысла” in Russian. Some disease that all literature teachers are infected by.  Every time they say about any part of the book “Oh, what a deep meaning, ah, ah, ah”. When they say so it seems that they…