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Jul. 1st, 2002 01:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pearwaldorf<snotty intellectual elitism>
The bad part about opening the Internet up to everybody is that every idiot has to put in his or her two cents (::waves::), and usually it isn't even worth that. There are more than two extremes between I loved it!!! and this is the shittiest thing ever!!!!!
Most Americans have attention spans to rival a goldfish's, and if they don't "get" a thing in a sitting it's stupid or too complicated. Well, fuck. The world is complicated. You can't totally understand something like the conflicts in the Middle East in one sitting (although Goddess knows people have tried), so why should a piece of art be different?
It also irritates me when people call something a "new" (insert name here) or a (name) with a bit of (name). (Ted Rall did a really good comic on this, somewhere.) Use your previous experiences as a frame of reference, not a pigeonhole. And stuff. It's getting late (early?) and I have no graceful way to end this, so good night.
(Oh yeah. All of this is a meandering roundabout way to say my review of 18 will be up on Amazon tomorrow.)
The bad part about opening the Internet up to everybody is that every idiot has to put in his or her two cents (::waves::), and usually it isn't even worth that. There are more than two extremes between I loved it!!! and this is the shittiest thing ever!!!!!
Most Americans have attention spans to rival a goldfish's, and if they don't "get" a thing in a sitting it's stupid or too complicated. Well, fuck. The world is complicated. You can't totally understand something like the conflicts in the Middle East in one sitting (although Goddess knows people have tried), so why should a piece of art be different?
It also irritates me when people call something a "new" (insert name here) or a (name) with a bit of (name). (Ted Rall did a really good comic on this, somewhere.) Use your previous experiences as a frame of reference, not a pigeonhole. And stuff. It's getting late (early?) and I have no graceful way to end this, so good night.
(Oh yeah. All of this is a meandering roundabout way to say my review of 18 will be up on Amazon tomorrow.)
