actually, that's how I felt, and I would have said it to his face... In
fact, a good friend of mine once said something almost identical to my
face, and I appreciated his honesty... He was completely right. Once I got
over the ego shock, it allowed me to grow as an artist... I do people the
courtesy of being honest with them, rather than the discourtesy of being
polite... What's really sad, is that people's egos are so fragile they
can't take criticism, and that other people have been so brainwashed into
respecting politeness above honesty that they come to the defense of
aforementioned fragile ego types... We are all grown up here and don't need
to be coddled anymore...
honestly,
Josh
quoted 16 lines Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
>Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 11:23:43 -0700 (PDT)
>To: idm@hyperreal.org
>From: eric@synthesizer.org
>Subject: a key
>Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0105151113440.17298-100000@shell3.ba.best.com>
>
> >I think you are just jealous because maybe you have tried to produce art
> >and failed...
>
>It just occurred to me why people treat others so horribly in public on
>this list: they're only writing emails to "idm@hyperreal.org", rather than
>to an actual person. None of these threads are ever taken to private
>email. Sure, people have to save their faces when challenged in public
>(boys will be boys!), but that doesn't cover it all. If they took this
>stuff private, they would have to know that they're discussing things in
>this way to an actual person. Sad, really.