Uhh. I was just talking about what would interest me or not about heroes, but okay, I guess I see the connection. And well, I can't really control it if you think what you're doing fits what I say I don't like. I wouldn't know if it fits, though, so I'm just talking about heroes and not your novel.
I do think criticism has a use, don't get me wrong. And I enjoy some criticism. I just think...it's a lot easier to be against something than for something, and to attract like-minded people that way, and to distinguish oneself as different and special that way.
I'm not trying to say everybody should write something themselves, or that no one should criticize. But seriously, like, we've got a whole academy united in the publishing potential of criticism. We've got newspapers of criticism. We've got atheism and sexual revolution and anti-war, anti-capitalism, anti-gun, anti-mainstream... We think everything is going downhill--the economy, the culture, the education system, politics... But who are we and what are we for?
It gets to a point where even the novelty and seeming individuality of a critical voice just begins to sound like all the rest.
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Date: 2011-05-22 10:48 pm (UTC)I do think criticism has a use, don't get me wrong. And I enjoy some criticism. I just think...it's a lot easier to be against something than for something, and to attract like-minded people that way, and to distinguish oneself as different and special that way.
I'm not trying to say everybody should write something themselves, or that no one should criticize. But seriously, like, we've got a whole academy united in the publishing potential of criticism. We've got newspapers of criticism. We've got atheism and sexual revolution and anti-war, anti-capitalism, anti-gun, anti-mainstream... We think everything is going downhill--the economy, the culture, the education system, politics... But who are we and what are we for?
It gets to a point where even the novelty and seeming individuality of a critical voice just begins to sound like all the rest.
Shit, I'm late.