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Category: Politics
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I wonder what there is left to hope for. People say that – with the best of intentions, I know – but I look around and see nothing but despair.
You might argue this has happened before. The eighties. We’ve matched their insane inflation today. Who, other than the sanely wealthy, was happy then? It took near a decade to repair that damage, and we didn’t have the ever looming threat of environmental disaster on the horizon. The weather gets worse every year. Everyone shrugs, or hunches over their phones wrapped up in warped conspiracy theories that climate change is all a lie.
When I was a child and learning to write, I wrote very neatly and always as close to the edges as I could get away with. The teacher joked I was “trying to save trees.” I wasn’t consciously doing that, but I was aware in a dim child’s way that paper was precious snd over production caused problems. Ergo, I couldn’t find the humour in this – I was trying to not use too much paper, which was surely saving the school money if nothing else – and all I got was “silly goose” style patronising jokes.
Nothing really changes. I had a dream last night, a child sitting on a rocky over hang and looking at what was left of the valley before. Fire had burnt it to cinders. The skinny cat seated at her side remarked simply, “they’ll never learn.”
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I really wish people could try and grasp a very simple concept: fiction is not reality.
Some fiction is certainly triggering to people due to past trauma. Wanting to avoid such media is totally understandable – it’s why warnings of possibly objectionable content are included with a film’s rating. This isn’t what I mean.
I’m referring to the type of people who declare anyone that enjoys anything they find objectionable for any reason outside of trauma (in other words, objections based on subjective moral opinions) is a terrible person. As a media fan and a creator, it’s enraging and unbelievably nasty and small minded to say such things, unless we’re talking about something that’s made with the explicit goal of spreading hatred that is.
There are plenty of things I don’t enjoy in media. I don’t judge anyone who feels differently, morally or otherwise. I will never understand those who not only judge, but essentially spout views that are awfully close to the kind of crap I expect from Jack Thompson types. That is, they want all media they hate banned.
The most baffling part of all is that these opinions invariably coming not from the ultra-conservatives (they are there too, but easily ignored) but my side. The liberal side. And I will never understand it.
There’s something Stephen King said in his book On Writing that I hold as a mantra when writing myself: fiction is not the moral Olympics. It is not church.
You know what I do when I read about a piece of media I’m interested in watching and realise quite quickly from summaries that it won’t be for me?
I don’t watch it.
It’s that simple.
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I wrote this elsewhere and received flattering and encouraging feedback, but so am reproducing here.
I ask my followers to please show respect to my views on this matter. We may disagree, but when a person has progressed to openly mocking and degrading the vulnerable, my mental gloves are off. I will apologise for nothing I have said.
My commentary:
Bloody Roses 