06-24-2020, 01:57 PM
(06-24-2020, 01:27 PM)GMDino Wrote: I was writing the other day about not talking about things you don't know about. If you have an opinion and no knowledge then your best bet is to just say nothing beyond what your opinion is if someone is having a conversation about it.
That's me with art.
I don't know much about it so I don't criticize much of it. I'll have a conversation about "what is art" and "what is offensive" but it's more just for the conversation than because I can defend art or anything.
This is another one of those frustrations my wife has with me, and it is probably an indication of being slightly neurologically divergent. I have a very hard time describing why I like something. I either like it or I don't. My wife can go on and on about the traits of something that explain her opinions of it. I just kind of shrug and go "it looks nice."
I also can't describe faces. At all. Were I a witness or a victim of a crime, there is no chance a sketch artist would ever be able to work with me. I just can't communicate that sort of thing.
"A great democracy has got to be progressive, or it will soon cease to be either great or a democracy..." - TR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
"The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." - FDR
