I hate how people conflate {not engaging with the symbolism of a piece of art} with {being unable to engage with the symbolism} and then conflate that with {being too unintelligent to learn how to engage with symbolism in art}

like bitch I simply Do Not Care. for example as far as I’m concerned the unicorn parts of Blade Runner are atmospheric but otherwise pointless filler, and I would enjoy the movie less if I tried to analyze them any further than that

I make the conscious decision to not engage with symbolism 95% of the time because not only do I Not Care but it would actively distract me from the aspects of the art that I do like: the worldbuilding, all of the little details in the props and sets, and the questions being asked by the story (like: are replicants amoral? do they have alien emotions that give them alien morality? or do they have the same emotions as humans but simply not express them openly?) and that is way cooler to me than whatever an origami unicorn “represents” in someone’s mind