I wish my effort to explain what I love in life could change the world. Now that I’m hopefully a little wiser, I’m back to grand theories, even if it is a little hyperbolic.Īvatar: the Legend of Korra isn’t going to be what leads to war, and this single article about it won’t stop it. Writing, sitting down, and trying ( and sometimes failing), to put my thoughts on paper has helped me realize that it’s hard to communicate clearly let alone write what people enjoy reading. There are parts of books that I really enjoy, even if overall it’s disappointing.
I’ve gotten better at holding contradictory ideas about things. Instead I try to simply explain why I love the things I love. I made a decision to move away from pure criticism. There are undoubtedly things I critique in my day to day life, but most of the time I’m interacting with and appreciating things that I truly enjoy. My writing needed work, and it failed to capture how I truly interact with the world. I get it into my head that a book or piece of music means something very specific - usually bad - for the entire world, and I need to plant myself like a tree and refuse to move. I pull out problems, and then declare that therefore the whole structure has fallen apart, even when there’s some pretty good or even very good work left in what I’ve condemned for collapse. When I think like a reviewer, I become caustic. I wanted to be a reviewer, so I tried to write like one. In the early days of this blog, I did a lot more social criticism. The Legend of Korra demonstrates the political thinking that I’m worried will lead to war.Ī quick note before we begin: I don’t like such a hyperbolic style.
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