Emotions are intrinsically good and bad

[brewer]

A brief glance indicates that you did a bit of cherry picking and he did not support you as much as you made it seem here.

You are right.  He did disagree with me on some points.  But he did agree with my worldview which was the idea that it can only be our positive emotions that make our lives matter to us in good ways and that these miserable artists were deluding themselves.

If that's the case, I disagree with him.