Critics exist to criticise, to provide critiques (opinions) and make criticisms of existing ideas. For the professional critic, proposing or inventing ideas is always someone else's job. Criticism is by its very nature negative or Black Hat thinking ie one style of thinking out of many. Many people like to style themselves as "the resident Black Hat thinker" which is not surprising at all since it turns out that criticising existing ideas is the easiest form of thinking.
Actually we don't need critics making their "critiques" at all. What we need is for ALL thinkers to know when to wear the Black Hat and when not to wear it. As usual the role of criticism is supposed to be a constructive one but I'm afraid that's an oxymoron as criticism is always negative and that's its function. Kim > On 20 Mar 2015, at 10:31 am, meekerdb <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 3/19/2015 3:54 PM, LizR wrote: >>> On 20 March 2015 at 10:56, Kim Jones <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> Clark is that desperate order of human whose only creative ability lies in >>> shitting on the thinking of others. He is quite simply bereft of any >>> thinking of his own and has clearly never once in gis life experienced a >>> creative idea - even by accident. He is therefore exists only as a parasite >>> on the back of others since he lacks the means to exist as a thinker in his >>> own right. >> This might be of interest... >> >> http://writersfestival.co.nz/events/the-role-of-the-critic/ > > I wonder why only art needs critics? > > Brent > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Everything List" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
