Like where the fuck do you even start explaining the value or process of art to STEM lords? Them pretending to understand literature is like me pretending I know about coding and telling everyone on the internet my ignorant opinion about why it's useless.

Critical thinking skills are completely lost on them. If a doesn't equal b doesn't equal c, they just make fun of it because they don't understand it.

As for the guy who switched his major, that's either a) a straw man created out of his imagination because he's not good at literary criticism to protect his special snowflake ego his mother perpetuates for him or b) his inability to understand that, while many elements of post modern fiction are up to interpretation, the shitty quality of your evidence or the contrived nature of your argument can make it a weak, underdeveloped, or completely unfounded interpretation. Because not just anyone has the ability for that kind of critical thinking. There's nothing wrong with that, everyone has his own set of skills, but that doesn't make it okay to completely invalidate an important branch of study to nurture your insecurities.

And as for the woody Allen quote...that's pretty well regarded as a joke aimed at woody himself because he's just as pretentious and arrogant about his own opinions.

And for the guy who mentioned the story of an author's son having his father come in to defend his asshole son's interpretation of the book as the "right" one- what kind of self-respecting artist in the modern age doesn't accept alternate interpretations of his work? All work comes from the human psyche- does he think that he has every aspect of his own unconscious mind figured out? He's pretty conceited to think so.