> [T]here is nothing wrong with this. “Decoration and adornment are neither higher nor lower than ‘real’ life,” she writes. “They are part of it.”
Couldn't you say this about anything? War is neither higher nor lower than 'real' life, it is a part of it. A true statement, but essentially nhilistic.
It's not nihilistic, it's relativistic. War is bad because I don't like it. Things I like aren't bad by some supposed objective standard. My aesthetic in jewelery isn't better or worse than your aesthetic in video games or books.
Couldn't you say this about anything? War is neither higher nor lower than 'real' life, it is a part of it. A true statement, but essentially nhilistic.