When Plato said Art is detrimental to humanity, he obviously never chanced upon a japanese anime show, played a video game or perhaps even watched a nice movie.
If anything Art is what seperates us humans from the rest of the species in this world. Think about it, animals make things, this is evidenced by a bee's hive or even a termite mound in the plains of africa. So this proves they have an idea of engineering and such, they do this to have a home, a haven for them survive in and to reproduce, but we humans are off a higher order, we do not merely make something to just survive in. Our houses do not resemble a box with a triangle on top of it does it? We live just not to survive but to create something, that thing is art. We make things not to just merely use it, but to deeply ponder on it. It is this 'higher level' of thinking that makes art only rational to us Humans or perhaps aliens out there. Art is what makes everything around us beautiful, it is not placed there just for function but also for us know of it's existence.
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