If I see someone dying, of starvation or otherwise, I usually feel bad-- depressed, sad, uncomforble, awkward, frustrated. I don't attach an ethical value to it-- it's not a concept of 'fairness' or 'justice' or 'violation' or any of that, as I was trying (I think) to explain, it's more that they're just like any other human being and I'd help them if I could. I actually don't know if this whole attitude makes me heartless or what; I just think the element of judgment is missing in me.
If the author sucks... don't read. There is no reason to read. None. Zero. Absolutely.
That's what happened when I first picked up `Philosopher's Stone'-- I didn't like the Dursleys, didn't like the morality/overt moralizing/social satire, and chucked it across the room. I categorically refused to read the books-- on principle-- until I started getting involved through H/D fanfic & started to feel I should know canon to write fic. I just don't get it about reading things you don't enjoy. Maybe I can't stand being angry at a book; whatever it is, it feels weird to me, though. Also, the Man doesn't exist to me. It's that quote: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Therefore, the Man (men, women, children, etc) has no power over me. I am not oppressed, and most of my life I've been a minority (immigrant, female, Jewish, intellectual, dark-haired in a Slavic country, weird, etc). It's all in the attitude.
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Re: me, on the other hand
Date: 2004-08-23 03:37 am (UTC)If the author sucks... don't read. There is no reason to read. None. Zero. Absolutely.
That's what happened when I first picked up `Philosopher's Stone'-- I didn't like the Dursleys, didn't like the morality/overt moralizing/social satire, and chucked it across the room. I categorically refused to read the books-- on principle-- until I started getting involved through H/D fanfic & started to feel I should know canon to write fic. I just don't get it about reading things you don't enjoy. Maybe I can't stand being angry at a book; whatever it is, it feels weird to me, though. Also, the Man doesn't exist to me. It's that quote: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Therefore, the Man (men, women, children, etc) has no power over me. I am not oppressed, and most of my life I've been a minority (immigrant, female, Jewish, intellectual, dark-haired in a Slavic country, weird, etc). It's all in the attitude.
Then again, I'm... a bit militant ^^;;;