Also, I would not ethat we're having this argument in the comments section of a TV-related article, so obviously criticism is important to you to bring you here in the first place. I don't know what stick up your ass is making you, quite irrationally I may add, attempt to discredit each and every single artist,…

Look, when it comes to the arts nothing really matters all that much, which is why I have tried to make the distinction between intellectual canons and famous innovation. (one you're happy to conflate in your favor, which I admit.) Our lives would likely be basically the same without any of the artistic, literary, and…

definitely — me and you. two assclowns bickering on the internet.

Nah.

because this is the internet and it's fun.

"The Promise" would definitely stand a fair chance against True Detective, or any other episode from the year — the episodes chosen really throw the balance to True Detective.

HUNDRED YEARS RICK AND MORTY. I'm glad to see Arrow here, if anything because its selection recognizes the leaps and bounds season 2 made over season 1. I'm disappointed not to see Enlisted (which I think is better than Broad City, but don't get me wrong I love Broad City), Veep or Archer, and am kind of startled…

You know what — sure I do think cartoons are the same as books. Just as television is the same as books is the same as movies is the same as sitting around a campfire telling a story. It's all various forms of the art of storytelling, all capable of triggering human empathy and emotion. Isn't that all what this stuff…

As far as I can tell, this has been the main argument between us:

Well I think I've been pretty clear as to what I've been arguing in favor for. We're just not talking to each other at this point.

Where did I say that? And Roger Ebert was one of the most important film critics of the past century — who doesn't know that!? But that's besides the point because I was citing the article to get at the very first sentence, where he cites Jim Lasseter as saying ""I love his films. I study his films. I watch his films…

Also consider this interview the next time you call Miyazaki the writer of "average quality cartoons for kiddies" — American animation simply would not be the same were it not for his works. http://www.rogerebert.com/i…

Sure, that's a stretch — the Renaissance was among the most amazing artistic periods of all time. I'll give you that. But your basic failure to respond to my general argument after multiple back-and-forths now leads me to believe one of two things: (1) you can't focus on what's important here or (2) you're dodging and…

I would say that Kurosawa had a profound impact on Western film not only because of his subject material (material that Shakespeare did not author, by the way) but also his narrative and directive techniques, and I would argue that most of contemporary Disney and Pixar creative directors take significant inspiration…

This point was to clarify how I interpreted your argument, not to put words in your mouth. I know you did not say "only." I

As embarrassed as I am about my mistake, I think my point still stands. Also, is calling me Fez supposed to be a condescending insult or something? I'm genuinely curious bout that.

Sun Tzu was unknown to the West until translated into English but that doesn't mean he was hugely influential to the West you Anglo-centric idiot. Or does that not count? same for Laozi — just because you haven't heard of him or the west hasn't heard of him, that doesn't negate his contributions to our intellectual…

Also, I read this as you making two very distinct arguments between your two comments: (1) the existence of a coherent, intelligent conversation and intellectual tradition among white men that stands above all others or alone in human history, and (2) the common-place recognition of singular achievements with…

Sure — Sun Tzu, Confucius, Laozi, Vyasa, Mao Zedong, Siddhartha, Mahavira, Zuangzhi, and Al-Khwarizmi, to start. Let's also consider Arabian Nights as an incredibly important work in global literature, all the thinkers who influenced the deep divisions in Islam, and the fact that the Chinese matched or even surpassed…

To be fair, and speaking purely empirically here, everyone but white males did have a terrible record for being allowed to engage in intelligent analysis and clear discussion, as two-thousand years of human history have shown. Let's also totally blow past all of Middle Eastern mathematics, Eastern philosophy, feminist…