What I find difficult to wrap my brain around is the whole "lets insulate writers from criticism". It makes sense to bolster a person's self-estreem so they can deflect criticism. But to insulate? What is accomplished or gained? If anything you are hurting them by protecting them. The world is critical. You can't walk down the street without someone looking at you and criticizing how you walk, fart, what clothes you wear, or your hair-cut. So the insulation basically is akin to putting a person in a bubble and never exposing them to germs - they get out of that bubble - the first germ that hits? They fall apart.
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Date: 2010-07-20 04:20 pm (UTC)What I find difficult to wrap my brain around is the whole "lets insulate writers from criticism". It makes sense to bolster a person's self-estreem so they can deflect criticism.
But to insulate? What is accomplished or gained? If anything you are hurting them by protecting them. The world is critical.
You can't walk down the street without someone looking at you and criticizing how you walk, fart, what clothes you wear, or
your hair-cut. So the insulation basically is akin to putting a person in a bubble and never exposing them to germs - they get out of that bubble - the first germ that hits? They fall apart.