SoopaSte123 said:
Did I ever tell you that I love you have 2 videos and one written article a week, Bob? Because if I didn't, I really should have.
I know, right? It makes waiting a tiny bit easier. And then you have the Overthinker stuff and some podcasts too, although honestly my favourite material remains the Escapist one. I think it's because the Overthinker is more for fun from what I can tell and less... "professional" I guess?
captainjackofms said:
I dunno... calling someone's beliefs that they based their life around "stupidity" seems pretty biased to me.
Oh, it is biased, but it's neither Left-wing nor Right-wing. I don't think he denies he has subjective opinions and is biased on a bunch of stuff. He's just saying it's outside of the left-right political spectrum.
About the critic thing:
I remember when I was in art school (I spent a year there). It was pretty horrid, we had various classes that we had to make something for once a year, and they were merciless in criticizing them. We were grated out of 20 and most people would get 1 after 1 after 1 (they wouldn't give less to someone who had actually done something). After working the 15-20 hours required for each project, getting the same grade as someone who would have spent five minutes sucked. It was heartbreaking.
One teacher told me once about that, close to the end of the year. He talked about how when you work on a project, you put yourself into it, you love it. And when it's attacked, you feel you're attacked. And you need to learn to dissociate yourself from it, and be the one attacking it. Because as much as you like it, it might still be a piece of shit. And he said, when he looked back at the stuff he made as a student, which he had kept, it was shit. He could see it. He knew it. But man, he still loved it and it was heartbreaking every time.
Something you love isn't the same as something you made, but the emotional investment might be similar. When that thing is attacked, you feel attacked because you liked it. It's hard learning to detach yourself from it. Hell, I spent a year being told my stuff sucked and doing it anyways, and I still don't have a tough skin. Honestly can't take criticism well at all. But I know it's a fault on my part, not the people doing the criticism.
About politics:
It's funny, here in France "liberal" means "right-wing". Not because your left is our right (your left is more our center), but because we don't refer to the same thing being liberal.
We refer to classical liberalism rather than social liberalism, so your "liberal" is left-wing, our "liberal" is right-wing.
Before I realise that, it made discussing politics with Americans pretty weird.
We also don't have the same dichotomy of every issue becoming a left-wing or a right-wing issue. We don't have the evolution debate at all (religious people think that's how God wanted things to happen, by evolving, non-religious people think that's just the way it is, and either way nobody sees it as having anything to do with whether God exists or not. Kind of like gravity, it exists, religious people think God made it so, non-religious people don't. End of story).
We also have lots of parties, some left-wing, some right-wing, some extreme-left or extreme-right, some center, some center-left, some center-right... So yeah, we're less used to dividing things in an either/or kind of thing, because every party has its own views on every issue and it's not purely tied to where they fit in the left-right spectrum.
Anyway, interesting stuff.
