The Worthlessness of Criticism

 On Criticism

How utterly worthless. 

Particularly as we discover the subjective nature of reality. 

Phenomenology shows that the object and viewer are inseparable.

What does this mean?

It means the critic is giving his/her opinion and that there is no objective truth.

Art suffers under criticism.

Basquiat and Van Gogh suffered under critics.

Critics think they are God.

Harold Bloom wrote that Mathew Arnold was not a good poet. 

Mathew Arnold's poetry was good enough for Emerson.

The hypocrisy. Bloom probably wanted to be a poet but became a critic instead and

projected his "failure" onto Arnold. 

This becomes criticism: projection of one's self-worth onto another. 

If this be criticism, then why take it seriously?

Yet, we do. We stay up all night waiting for the review.

Artists, writers, composers. All waiting for approval from Dad. 

Is what I am writing now a poem? Sure, it is. It is because I say it is.

If you want to fight about it, meet me at the flagpole.

I'll kick your mother fucking ass. 

Art is art when someone says it is.

A novel is a novel when someone says it is.

A poem is a poem when someone says it is.

Art is art when someone says it is.

A musical composition is when someone says it is. 

An actor is an Actor because they say they are.

Art is art when someone says it is.

Volition is my will.

I say what I am.

Not you.

Critics are allowed to have their opinions and write about them.

I don't have to take it seriously. 

Critics criticize from their weakness, even if they have much historical and aesthetic knowledge.

Kant discovered the noumenon first. 

Maybe Plato did.

But the seer and the seen are the same thing and cannot be separated.

Just remember that.

Take out your cock and point it at them and begin urinating.

Women, too, take out your cocks and point them at the critics and commence urination. 

Even Roger Ebert was wrong sometimes.

We are very sensitive.

Tchaikovsky was mortified when Rubinstein criticized his First Piano Concerto.

It's now a staple of the repertoire.

See? Criticism comes from weakness. Not strength.

I am saying these things because my peers hate my music. 

I will take out my cock, and begin pis....................