I desire to produce a Great Work - the term I will use to avoid a lengthy,

I desire to produce a Great Work - the term I will use to avoid a lengthy,

I desire to produce a Great Work - the term I will use to avoid a lengthy, linguistically-bound dissertation on its specifics - but I find that, while I long to produce and offer a work (a work of art - writing, animation, film, or a combination) of Content (something with meaning and value beyond surface value; also, thought-provoking, e.g. the animated series <i>Neon Genesis Evangelion</i> or Franz Kafka's <i>Metamorphosis</i>,) I hate the thought of ignorant persons maiming the work, or enjoying it in a puerile manner for superficial reasons alone (e.g., thinking <i>Metamorphosis</i> was just some cool story because the guy turns into a bug, or <i>Evangelion</i> because it has giant robots.) This makes me reticent to create anything. Is this purely some sort of narcissistic elitism, or is it a legitimate concern? How have prior artists worked through misanthropy towards the ignorant to continue to create? Is there an established explanation of why myself or others feel this way about the full value of a work being discarded in favor of a small piece of it?

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