It's frustrating, but not without a generous admixture of hilarity (maybe rueful hilarity...). Sometimes the solution really is to—quite simply—stop doing whatever we're doing. Not do something else. Just stop and think.
I was involved in a convo of this nature a couple of years back. The person issuing the challenge was a family member known for aggressive thought patterns, which also could be VERY mainstream.
I didn't sleep that night. By morning, I had a manifesto ready to type.
Said family member never saw it. I was pleased that I had answers, nonethe less
You don’t need to have a solution to recognize a problem. If I see a tornado bearing down on me I don’t have to know how to stop it, I just need to know how to shelter.
I think the more appropriate criticism would be your observations are overly simplistic and trite and facile. Perhaps you manage to squeeze out three paragraphs. Starting a piece of writing with three quotes from other people comes across as lazy and cringey. I don't think that your heroes wrote three paragraphs and then demanded praise. They probably wrote 10,000 words and wanted no praise. I doubt they were so whiny. They probably had interesting novel insights. I wonder what would've happened if nobody took the Covid vaccine. Come on give us a number on the dead.
It's frustrating, but not without a generous admixture of hilarity (maybe rueful hilarity...). Sometimes the solution really is to—quite simply—stop doing whatever we're doing. Not do something else. Just stop and think.
I was involved in a convo of this nature a couple of years back. The person issuing the challenge was a family member known for aggressive thought patterns, which also could be VERY mainstream.
I didn't sleep that night. By morning, I had a manifesto ready to type.
Said family member never saw it. I was pleased that I had answers, nonethe less
Did you burn it? Sometimes, that’ show i reach closure. Im finding its not worth the “argument”
One thing im getting better at asking is: “ are you interested in a discussion about this?”
I didn't burn it. I shared it with a friend. I was proud of it, actually
You don’t need to have a solution to recognize a problem. If I see a tornado bearing down on me I don’t have to know how to stop it, I just need to know how to shelter.
I think the more appropriate criticism would be your observations are overly simplistic and trite and facile. Perhaps you manage to squeeze out three paragraphs. Starting a piece of writing with three quotes from other people comes across as lazy and cringey. I don't think that your heroes wrote three paragraphs and then demanded praise. They probably wrote 10,000 words and wanted no praise. I doubt they were so whiny. They probably had interesting novel insights. I wonder what would've happened if nobody took the Covid vaccine. Come on give us a number on the dead.