RE: I Don't Care
April 13, 2019 at 9:48 pm
(This post was last modified: April 13, 2019 at 9:49 pm by Alan V.)
(April 13, 2019 at 8:32 pm)Belaqua Wrote:(April 13, 2019 at 7:51 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: He had the bad habit of telling other people what their "real motivations" were and what they were "really thinking." Although his mind-reading was mostly inaccurate (as people tried to point out again and again), he never learned humility toward others and their opinions.
I agree with you that mind-reading is bad.
You have done it to me so much that I have given up calling you out on it. It is clearly habitual.
Most recently yesterday, when I told you the truth as I see it based on decades of intense experience, and you replied that I was "rationalizing" for reasons you imagined.
This is something we see a lot on this forum: it's OK to do if you are attacking the right people. Bad to do if you're attacking the wrong people.
Fair enough.
So you are claiming your assessments of the arts are accurate and mine are not? Okay.
I agree that your assessments are common in the arts. I still don't agree with those assessments.
I think that's a little different than mind-reading which is repeated after corrections are offered.
