thread: 2008-03-31 : Conpulsion 2008 Story 4: Indie Shortcomings
On 2008-04-02, Joshua A.C. Newman wrote:
But furthermore, in pretty much every area of my life, I'm unimpressed with people who won't try something new just in case they don't like it. Who'd rather avoid new things altogether than have a new experience they don't care for.
"Unimpressed" is a pretty understated way of putting that. I think we're in the same boat here.
I really don't understand folks who make their tastes prescriptive.
I do. You do, too. They feel that, by making them prescriptive, their assertion is evidence of their certainty, which, when others look at and recognize it, those others will validate their choices, and they thereby form for themselves a fragile and fearful identity.
Shit, I like some stuff that, over the course of my life, I've refused to give up despite it driving the people I love batty. I have weird preferences and habits. But I'm fucked in the non-friendly way if I think those things *make* me to the extent that it prevents me from experiencing other stuff. Fuck that noise right in the face.
I've played some games that other people love and I think are boring or, in some cases, hostile to humanity. But at least I tried them with as open a heart and mind as I could muster.
I'm also wrong a lot. I think I'll like something, then I don't. I think I don't like something, then I do. I'm wrong because I'm just a nervous system with sensory organs and motor nerves. They oxidize, they ionize, they do all sorts of stuff that makes me a different person from moment to moment. Imagining that, if I keep saying that I like something, it will keep me from changing, that's crazy talk.
