I wonder if the author has ever given the least thought to where reddit memes come from. As I 'consume' those, what always strikes me is the relentless creativity that makes memescape so diverse and clever and in the moment. I'll grant that most people's mode of interacting with memes is not to make more memes, but I resent that author's assumption that everyone phone-staring around him is passive.
(At least he realizes that it's not a factor of technology, that is another particular pet peeve of mine. I have the feeling that in the pre-phone era he would likely be content in that same smug superiority, but perhaps over reading a treatise on trade wars in China instead of a trashy genre book, or a more high-brow newspaper.)
I also resent creativity fetishism. I appreciate that as a theater person I'm lumped into the 'creatives' bucket, but producing original content (beyond an occasional piece of doggerel) was never a passion for me. I'm an editor more than a writer, a tweaker more than a maker, and I refuse to see so-called 'creatives' as superior to me by no virtue other than they start from a blank page. (Just as I refuse to see a 'bona fide book' superior to a tablet or a kindle, and find the snobbishness inherent in that particular judgement quite telling.)
From where I sit, over the course of the month of refinement perhaps the author achieved a slight improvement on his turn of phrase, but his thought is still judgemental drivel on the level of a kindergardner crossed with an old fogey. His life may be improved by him exerting himself, but I dare say the world on the whole would have remained a happier place if he kept his stereotypical blather out of it. For his next project in creativity perhaps he should take a year and reach an original thought. Perhaps, if he doesn't sprain something, he might manage to be half as creative as a random reddit meme.
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I wonder if the author has ever given the least thought to where reddit memes come from. As I 'consume' those, what always strikes me is the relentless creativity that makes memescape so diverse and clever and in the moment. I'll grant that most people's mode of interacting with memes is not to make more memes, but I resent that author's assumption that everyone phone-staring around him is passive.
(At least he realizes that it's not a factor of technology, that is another particular pet peeve of mine. I have the feeling that in the pre-phone era he would likely be content in that same smug superiority, but perhaps over reading a treatise on trade wars in China instead of a trashy genre book, or a more high-brow newspaper.)
I also resent creativity fetishism. I appreciate that as a theater person I'm lumped into the 'creatives' bucket, but producing original content (beyond an occasional piece of doggerel) was never a passion for me. I'm an editor more than a writer, a tweaker more than a maker, and I refuse to see so-called 'creatives' as superior to me by no virtue other than they start from a blank page. (Just as I refuse to see a 'bona fide book' superior to a tablet or a kindle, and find the snobbishness inherent in that particular judgement quite telling.)
From where I sit, over the course of the month of refinement perhaps the author achieved a slight improvement on his turn of phrase, but his thought is still judgemental drivel on the level of a kindergardner crossed with an old fogey. His life may be improved by him exerting himself, but I dare say the world on the whole would have remained a happier place if he kept his stereotypical blather out of it. For his next project in creativity perhaps he should take a year and reach an original thought. Perhaps, if he doesn't sprain something, he might manage to be half as creative as a random reddit meme.