Akaten said:
You enjoy anime because other people consider it to be disposable and worthless?
I like it both on the basis that
I consider it to have some kind of intrinsic worth, and because there simply aren't all that many opinions floating around about it at all.
Akaten said:
Dare I ask why are you studying literature at higher education if you try to avoid it outside of your course?
Because the job market has the idea that English Literature is of some worth, despite it being an easy and entirely worthless subject, and because my grades were tending that way. I genuinely expect this NOT to be the case in a decade or so, since so many people do Literature every year. It'll receive exactly the same bad press as Media or Film Studies, because it's just the same thing, caked in 100 years of extra ********.
What really gets under my skin is how hypocritical the entire discipline is. You've got Marxist studies on the political structures in mere-works of fiction, when the only structures that could possibly allow someone to waste their life talking about something so entirely inconsequential are the structures that they're attacking. Or Feminists creating a literature culture that empowers women... but for what? So that Women outnumber Men by a ridiculous ratio in the subject, diverting countless intelligent women from the male-dominated sciences and power structures that they spend all their time attacking in the safe and cosy world of
fiction?
That and if you're supposed to read a novel plus secondary material every week for a term, is it any wonder that you might get fatigued
Akaten said:
And what is wrong with writing down your thoughts on a film, citing evidence to offer insight and trying to understand and comprehend the decisions taken by the people who made it?
It's wrong in the current climate because ****-loads of people sign themselves up to such degrees which ultimately contribute nothing to the world at large. It's all part of an education system that sends
almost everyone to University regardless of whether it will actually benefit them. All English / Film / Media students actually do is provide a larger and larger body of study for their own self-contained cloud world. That and a sizeable income for Universities that is ultimately spent on students
who actually need it, in the sciences. The ultimate goal of the system is apparently making it so that 99.9% of academics spend their lives completely unable to actually
create what they consume and spit out.
Akaten said:
Are we supposed to sit in a comatose, spittle dribbling from our lips mumbling "wooooo, ahhhh," as our senses are overwelmed by a barrage of lights and colour and leave it at that?
Because of course, if you don't publish a book or paper or essay on "How doorways in the works of the Bronte sisters are metaphors for the problem of Women's sexuality in the 19th Century", you're automatically a dribbling moron.
