The view that shattering mysteries reduces their value is very much a result of religion trying to protect itself.
Or perhaps it’s the result of this view sometimes being plainly true, as borne out by experience.
I’ve never been religious, and I’ve experienced firsthand that it’s entirely possible for something to become less beautiful if you understand it better.
I listen to a fair number of Japanese songs. There are songs I have specifically not looked up translations for, because even though the song will still be beautiful either way, there’s a unique value in its wordless beauty that will be destroyed if I learn what the lyrics mean. I know this because I’ve experienced it before, with other songs. Or, in the case of Maximum the Hormone, the meanings of the lyrics are so disconcerting that they are actively harmful to my enjoyment of the otherwise highly enjoyable songs.
Now, maybe this specific example isn’t addressing exactly what you mean. But my point is that different people are different, and not everyone is going to have the experience that describing or explaining a phenomenon does nothing to diminish its value.
Or perhaps it’s the result of this view sometimes being plainly true, as borne out by experience.
I’ve never been religious, and I’ve experienced firsthand that it’s entirely possible for something to become less beautiful if you understand it better.
I listen to a fair number of Japanese songs. There are songs I have specifically not looked up translations for, because even though the song will still be beautiful either way, there’s a unique value in its wordless beauty that will be destroyed if I learn what the lyrics mean. I know this because I’ve experienced it before, with other songs. Or, in the case of Maximum the Hormone, the meanings of the lyrics are so disconcerting that they are actively harmful to my enjoyment of the otherwise highly enjoyable songs.
Now, maybe this specific example isn’t addressing exactly what you mean. But my point is that different people are different, and not everyone is going to have the experience that describing or explaining a phenomenon does nothing to diminish its value.