I'll read a book if I think it's likely to be smart. Generally, I can't help but think that anyone who has such extreme lack of self-recognition or cultural consciousness as Elizabeth Bear, Will Shetterly, and especially the Nielsen Haydens have shown in their responses to this business is unlikely to have enough creative intellect to create a world or a character or a novel in which I'm interested.
This is definitely a part of why I have little desire to read anything by them anymore. There is this idea of art as something that can transcend the artist, exist outside him/her, and perhaps that is true, but whatever it is and wherever it comes from it is at least is filtered through the artists' perceptions. And I find their perceptions lacking in complexity and sensitivity and intellectual honesty and therefore don't think what they make will have much to offer me.
(Here via rydra_wong's links, in case you were wondering.)
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Date: 2009-02-04 01:50 pm (UTC)This is definitely a part of why I have little desire to read anything by them anymore. There is this idea of art as something that can transcend the artist, exist outside him/her, and perhaps that is true, but whatever it is and wherever it comes from it is at least is filtered through the artists' perceptions. And I find their perceptions lacking in complexity and sensitivity and intellectual honesty and therefore don't think what they make will have much to offer me.
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