I even got betrayed by a novel which was doing so well until it did the swerve, felt so betrayed, yet I must continue to consume slop
I even got betrayed by a novel which was doing so well until it did the swerve, felt so betrayed, yet I must continue to consume slop
The people telling you to “just switch your brain off and enjoy it” are doing themselves a disservice, not you. You wouldn’t get that with anything else. People wouldn’t be like “Don’t complain about this food being awful, just hold your nose and shovel it in your gob.”
You can still enjoy something while also seeing it as flawed, much like how diamat lets us see a clearer picture of material reality, media analysis lets you see both the positive and negative aspects of media you watch. Sometimes it can even be more enjoyable this way, you can see when the author of a work started having dangerous thoughts and their western education programming kicked in and they made sure to correct it, like with The Swerve.
Could also be fun for you to practice writing yourself, express yourself creatively that way. Not with a goal of being a novelist or anything, just for fun, you might really enjoy it.
it’s not equivalent to hold your nose and shovel, it’s more like not putting the food in the mass spectrometer
You haven’t met my mother. “You sit at the table until you eat everything on your plate!” and 10 year old me stares at the steamed broccoli for hours.