My vague sense here is that you think he has hidden motives?
Absolutely not, his motive (how to be kind to authors) is clear. I think he is using the argument as a soldier. Unlike Zack, I’m fine with that in this case.
This feels like the type of conversation that takes a lot of time and doesn’t help anyone much.
I endorse that. I’ll edit my grandparent post to explicitly focus on literary/media criticism. I think my failure to do so got the discussion off-track and I’m sorry. You mention that “awesome” and “terrible” are very subjective words, unlike “blue”, and this is relevant. I agree. Similarly, media criticism is very subjective, unlike dress colors.
I see. That’s not a sense I pick up on myself, but I suppose it’s not worth litigating.
To be clear, skimming my previous posts, I don’t see anything that I don’t endorse when it comes to literary criticism. Like, if I’ve said something that you agree with most of the time, but disagree with for literary criticism, then we likely disagree. (Though of course there may be subtleties e.g. in the way that I think something applies when the topic is literary criticism.)
You mention that “awesome” and “terrible” are very subjective words, unlike “blue”, and this is relevant. I agree. Similarly, media criticism is very subjective, unlike dress colors.
Media criticism can be very subjective, but it doesn’t have to be. “I love Star Wars” is more subjective than “Star Wars is great” is more subjective than “Star Wars is a technical masterpiece of the art of filmmaking” is more subjective than “Star Wars is a book about a young boy who goes to wizard school”. And as I said above:
I’m comfortable with “Luke is a Jedi”, and I think it’s importantly different from, say, “Yoda is wise” or “the Death Star is indestructible” or “the Emperor has been defeated once and for all”.
And I think the ways it’s different are similar to the differences between claims about base-level reality like “Tim Cook is a CEO” versus “the Dalai Lama is wise” or “the Titanic is unsinkable” or “Napoleon has been defeated once and for all”.
Absolutely not, his motive (how to be kind to authors) is clear. I think he is using the argument as a soldier. Unlike Zack, I’m fine with that in this case.
I endorse that. I’ll edit my grandparent post to explicitly focus on literary/media criticism. I think my failure to do so got the discussion off-track and I’m sorry. You mention that “awesome” and “terrible” are very subjective words, unlike “blue”, and this is relevant. I agree. Similarly, media criticism is very subjective, unlike dress colors.
I see. That’s not a sense I pick up on myself, but I suppose it’s not worth litigating.
To be clear, skimming my previous posts, I don’t see anything that I don’t endorse when it comes to literary criticism. Like, if I’ve said something that you agree with most of the time, but disagree with for literary criticism, then we likely disagree. (Though of course there may be subtleties e.g. in the way that I think something applies when the topic is literary criticism.)
Media criticism can be very subjective, but it doesn’t have to be. “I love Star Wars” is more subjective than “Star Wars is great” is more subjective than “Star Wars is a technical masterpiece of the art of filmmaking” is more subjective than “Star Wars is a book about a young boy who goes to wizard school”. And as I said above: