I've never read it, but my understanding is that I'm in good (and bad) company, because almost nobody has read it. Even in Nazi Germany, people only bought it because they were expected to own a copy, and they didn't read it. Supposedly, it's not well organized and hard to read, in general, even in its original language. People bought a copy and kept it in their homes to show loyalty, similar to how they'd have a portrait of Hitler.

Turns out he was failed writer in addition to being a failed artist.

You don’t understand, the translation doesn’t properly convey some of the climactic conclusions. You have to read it in the original Aramaic to really understand it

I'd be curious how they got the book in the first place because if I owned a used book store I'm not touching that without a very good reason. You can't in good conscience sell it, because any private collector who wants it is 99.99999% of the time a terrible person and should be kicked out of the store; it's probably not something a museum is interested in even as a donation; and destroying it feels a bit too... I don't know, it wouldn't be wrong to destroy it but the irony is too thick for me.

It's actually more "my battle" than "my struggle". Not that this matters much. But the latter sounds more like Adolf's personal struggles with his job, wife, life and all 😁

He is going to mention himself a few times.

The whole beginning is autobiographical. It's more than just a few times

I think it's meant to be criticising people who just say "separate the art from the artist" for things like Harry Potter, but them pointing out the hypocrisy with a book that no one can defend because of who wrote it. That's my take, anyway

Yea mein kampf doesn't need a evil writer to be evil. It would be evil if it was anonymous or ghost written. Other art by Hitler would have been a better argument as it is just a picture of a city or building and doesn't have any racist or antisemitic content but still is stained by him in its story.

I think the joke is that the guy is unwittingly outing himself as a Nazi. He thought it was great until he learned the author's reputation.

One day I had a memory that there was some popular band back in high school and I wanted to find them again and have a nostalgia listen. I had no idea until years (decades) later

You can however like and dislike different things an artist and an art does. Its just siloing the stuff you dislike away as if the context never matters is simply wilful ignorance.

You can. I think what you're referring to is that you can get a deeper meaning of the art by learning about the artist, but you can still separate the art.

This comic is a perfect example. You can separate Mein Kampf from the artist, and guess what? It's still a terrible piece of art. Bingo bango, all it took was media literacy.

If you couldn't separate the art from the artist to dismiss art then you would be saying that if someone has evil beliefs their soul is evil and they are not capable of creating good art. Which is a heinous belief. Bad people can make good art.

Why? I totally don't care who made it, when I like what is made.

So, teach me the ways of the art and how it works, please.