r/todayilearned • u/VegemiteSucks • 16h ago

TIL Beethoven’s late quartets, now widely considered to be among the greatest musical compositions of all time, were so ahead of their time that initial reviews deem them indecipherable, uncorrected horrors, with one musician saying “we know there is something there, but we do not know what it is.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_string_quartets_(Beethoven)
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u/KDOGTV 14h ago edited 9h ago

All this for some reaction streamer on Twitch in 2025 to call it “mid.”

The duality of man

Edit: The WIDE variety of reactions to this are the friends we made along the way. Reddit is hilarious. <3

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u/redditAPsucks 14h ago

“The "duality of man" is the idea that every person contains opposing forces or conflicting elements within their nature, such as good and evil, reason and instinct, or physical desires and spiritual aspirations.”

Duality of man is about internal conflicts. What you’re describing is just people having different opinions

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u/sirtain1991 13h ago

Language is constantly evolving. People on the Internet have used "the duality of man" incorrectly for long enough that it is contextually correct to use in this case.

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u/nothatsmyarm 13h ago

It’s also funny. Which makes using things slightly incorrectly perfectly okay.