Is This Good?
Musings on what’s good.
What is good?
A lot of my friends talk a lot about what media (for our purposes I’m including literature, movies, tv etc) and if it is good or not. Some friends come at it from a philosophical point of view, others from a craft oriented this is written poorly level, often the conversations move from those things to is this racist, sexist etc. These are conversations I enjoy watching and generally haven’t felt comfortable participating in for a lot of reasons.
For many years I thought it was because most of the philosophy a lot of the discussions were based on, I just don’t care about. I understand them to a degree but frankly my interest in the western white canon of anything bores me and I just don’t really care. And there was always something that bugged me about a lot of the conversations that I couldn’t quite put my finger on.
Recently as I was waxing poetic about my undying and unapologetic love of racist, sexist, homophobic YAY ‘MERICA action movies, I figured it out.
First, read this from another piece I wrote:
As I was developing my understanding and acceptance of my Blackness, your problematic SJW necromancer was starting to hatch. I was reading about movements and philosophies. I was building the bridge to myself I needed. I was about 19 or so when I first…
