Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2014 21:18:06 GMT
I never hard of him until recipe ****ers brought him to my attention and he seems to be mentioned a lot so here's a thread about him.
I've been looking in on his blog and I appreciate him examining stories and seeing where they are coming from. A friend told me to read the one I'm linking to below. I may be wrong, and correct me because I'm not English, but my understanding of the London riots was as (ultimately, though not entirely) an unfocused consumer frenzy.
Also, I sometimes wonder about transposing 'issues' onto to texts. Sometimes I see the point of revealing biases authors may have and may not be aware they have but sometimes I think it can all get out of hand - a bit like watching Jaws and complaining that the low wages lifeguards receive was never mentioned.
OK, what I've just written might make more sense after you read this, I recommend skipping down to the 8th paragraph...
www.philipsandifer.com/2014/07/build-high-for-happiness-night-terrors.html
Good on the lad for engaging deeply but is he wasting his obvious mental resources (no sarcasm, I reckon he's clever enough) tilting at windmills and is it a bit over the top to say that The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Monster of Peladon, The Dominators and The Celestial Toymaker are stomach turning? Could he really feel that strongly about them? I can only imagine how such sensitivity copes when faced with the horrors of the world we hear about every day. He must actually puke.
Maybe I should ask him that directly but I'm wondering how you lot feel here.
I've been looking in on his blog and I appreciate him examining stories and seeing where they are coming from. A friend told me to read the one I'm linking to below. I may be wrong, and correct me because I'm not English, but my understanding of the London riots was as (ultimately, though not entirely) an unfocused consumer frenzy.
Also, I sometimes wonder about transposing 'issues' onto to texts. Sometimes I see the point of revealing biases authors may have and may not be aware they have but sometimes I think it can all get out of hand - a bit like watching Jaws and complaining that the low wages lifeguards receive was never mentioned.
OK, what I've just written might make more sense after you read this, I recommend skipping down to the 8th paragraph...
www.philipsandifer.com/2014/07/build-high-for-happiness-night-terrors.html
Good on the lad for engaging deeply but is he wasting his obvious mental resources (no sarcasm, I reckon he's clever enough) tilting at windmills and is it a bit over the top to say that The Talons of Weng-Chiang, The Monster of Peladon, The Dominators and The Celestial Toymaker are stomach turning? Could he really feel that strongly about them? I can only imagine how such sensitivity copes when faced with the horrors of the world we hear about every day. He must actually puke.
Maybe I should ask him that directly but I'm wondering how you lot feel here.