How am I being a “busybody” by commenting on a project you put out for public consumption, that you WANT people to comment on, involving multiple people I know? Yes, it is cruel. I stand by my criticism. It is cruel to Miller, Sandra, and the filmmaker. No reason to coy about it; I imagine it is cruel by design.
KIRAC
KIRAC14 hours ago
“For all parties involved,” because the camera is always guilty. It is the same argument Daniel Miller makes against Sandra in the film: “you just want to create spectacle.” And let it be known: she initially refused to quote-tweet on the grounds that she did not want to provide a platform, only to reverse herself once it became popular enough that her intervention could be dismissed as merely “a drop in the ocean.” Everything about this woman is gatekeeping. A moralistic busybody who insists on keeping her hand on the wheel. At the same time, she calls herself an accelerationist. That is the repellent world she is edging toward: trailing behind the tech crowd to skim off the spoils, while simultaneously adopting a moralistic posture and rehearsing infantile notions about the supposed evil of the medium. Probably not out of malice, but out of sheer stupidity.
And “let it be known” not all criticism is a witch hunt. Not every comment needs to be fawning.
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