User blog comment:GreyOwl/Constructive Criticism/@comment-6548012-20160706150317/@comment-6548012-20160707132356

I think I may have chosen the wrong vocabulary there&mdash;by ignoring, I mean that you can't really change their views without adding a little more to it than what has already been said before&mdash;of course you can more or less change everyone's point of view, but from my experience with social tropes and psychological habits of the human being, (I'm not saying my perspective is the right one, it's just so we can debate, if you want to) I can assure you that this is not the kind of point of view that works the same way as an addiction.

With an addiction, there's, most of the time, a will to get out of it, because for some drug users and alcoholics, they don't really want that addiction in their lives - there's always gonna be someone to reject any help and never reconsider their addiction as hurtful until they overdose, but when it comes to bad criticism, the only way to change it is to get involved with the art you're criticizing, to resent it, (feel it, not despise it) to have it speak to you, and I don't always mean that in a good way, because it's the same for a bad piece of art except in negative, uh, vibes? Though I don't want to take an hour from your time to explain that negative bias has more influence over our psyche than positive bias, it's still important to take into account that it can make critique very hard as it obstruses our judgement, blah, blah, blah, science science, boring.

What I want to say, but phrase poorly is that I don't find it pointless, au contraire, in fact, I agree with you, I myself am very stubborn and I don't take kindly either to a dismissive behaviour, nor do I like some folk voluntarily staying stupid, but even outside of the realm of critique, you can be involved, but if I may give a counsel, it would be to evade saying these things where not everyone in the targeted community's gonna see it, know what I mean? I'm not sure I would manage to explain very well, so I'll leave this tip at that, but sometimes I think you just have to ignore some things to come back later, to assess that information and hit back with it. I dig that you compare it to addicted blokes though, I imagine, because you want to help them forge their own critical thinking, which is honourable, and I've even tried that too, but then it's about having a voice, for example, if you were an administrator, you'd have more of a voice, if you were popular as, I don't know, a filmmaker, some YouTuber, whatever, you'd have more of a voice, and that's unfair, but I think that if you really want to change something, you just try to build up your own voice even more. To me, it doesn't matter, I would have the same amount of civism whoever you were, but some people don't have the education to think differently.

I can agree and relate with you on being against injustice and doing what you can to prevent it, I have this trait too, but even though I got into some real trouble with it, what matters in those situations is to build up your own voice. After all, taking on cultural and intellectual differences isn't an easy task, and you should be praised for being involved, but as appealing as it is to just keep pushing over and over, it may be of better use to work around it, though I can totally agree on your idea, and your character as a whole, if I may say so.

As I said, I haven't read your pastas entirely, I would like to take more of a look at your psychological insights, after all, it's a subject I hold dearly that of the human mind, but I felt in your writing something that differed from the norm, I'd have to read more to tell you exactly, so I'll do that.

Of course, I can't agree more, as I said, I don't take kindly to a dismissive behaviour, I've heard way too many people complain about shit without doing anything about it to ever think about doing it myself, you can be sure of that.