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andrewducker) wrote2006-10-11 08:51 am
andrewducker) wrote2006-10-11 08:51 am
While I'm talking about things I don't like
I have pretty much enjoyed Home on the Strange since it began, but the latest story line is pissing me off, as it basically consist of "Look - people making art I don't like! What a bunch of idiots! Don't they get that making art I don't like is pointless and stupid???"
Which is an attitude I despise nearly as much as "Look - people at a party talking about stuff I'm not interested in, how dare they have interests I don't care about? I bet they think they're cool, but actually they're not!" - which I bumped into a few weeks back on someone's journal.
If you don't like something, don't do it. If you're not interested in something, don't engage with it. If other people _are_ then that's something they should be _encouraged_ to engage with, rather than belittled for actually having an interest in something, just because it's not what you care about.
Which is an attitude I despise nearly as much as "Look - people at a party talking about stuff I'm not interested in, how dare they have interests I don't care about? I bet they think they're cool, but actually they're not!" - which I bumped into a few weeks back on someone's journal.
If you don't like something, don't do it. If you're not interested in something, don't engage with it. If other people _are_ then that's something they should be _encouraged_ to engage with, rather than belittled for actually having an interest in something, just because it's not what you care about.
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Deliberately excluding someone from a conversation because they don't share your detailed technological knowledge is just plain rude. Doing so in an attempt to demonstrate your membership of a clique - or gique - is both rude and immature.
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But wanting to talk about things that may not interest other people, or are at a level they don't follow, is just fine by me. I mean, I don't complain when people talk about football, I just go and find another conversation to join in. If they saw me coming and then deliberately changed the topic to football then yes, that would be terrible behaviour.