#the way the reviews aren't even reviews of the music just like speculation about the drama behind the songs

[tswift]

I wish taylor would fight back like there is something so sus going on with the reviews and these planted articles talking about how swifties are sick of music like bitch what????

at the very least she should release a very shady music video for who's afraid of little old me. the industry cannot handle her success they're sick of her always winning so they're trying to turn the gp against her like I did not live through 2016 to see shit like this happen again

[maximuswolf]

Fantano's Opinions are just opinions except they aren't.

Fantano's Opinions are just opinions, except they aren't. In conclusion to revisiting Cole's 2014 FHD, Anthony Fantano maintained his 6/10 stance, which, normally, unleashed floods of detractors in his comment section. I listlessly scrolled through, but still, as previous times, sensed something lurking beneath the derision directed at Fantano; something about his music opinions that stirs dramatic reactions, that even Fantano occasionally has to remind his viewers that his reviews are just opinions. Yet, people react to his opinions as if they transcend opinion-ness, as if his opinions were objective facts. There's a psychological elevation of Fantano-like opinions beyond mere opinions, and towards objectivity.That's always amused me, so I want to do some fun speculation; what feature do Fantano-like opinions have that makes them like that. I start with what those opinions are elevated towards— objective facts.Objective facts exist with or without a perceiver; they don't need permission from the perceiver to exist. This entails that objective facts impose themselves upon the consciousness, whether allowed or not — they require no permission. To elucidate this: A unicorn is within the permission of your consciousness; you can permit it to be in your mind or not. A table, on the other hand, doesn't require your permission to be perceived. You create the unicorn in your mind, while the table creates itself in your mind. An imposition upon the perceiver is the essence of Objectivity.Now, if the essence of objective is psychological imposition, that'd mean that any psychologically imposing thing, even if subjective, would cause an engagement on the part of the imposed upon that is the same as how the imposed upon would engage with an objective thing.Without perceptual permission, Fantano creates "FHD is a 6/10" in one's mind; he imposes "FHD is a 6/10" upon one's consciousness—His opinions become "objective".Note that this differs from a friend giving their opinion on FHD when one asks for it—even if one takes offense to "FHD is 6/10, they'd react to the opinion as a bad opinion, “bad take”.. but an opinion still. In Fantano's case, however, the opinion identifier is repressed. Humanity's interaction with objectivity—its imposition upon our consciousness—has been so instinctually deepened that anything which imposes itself upon our consciousness causes us to react as if it were objective. Positive reactions are no exception. The scientist, the philosopher, the surgeon, the politician, all exist in powerful positions that make it possible to psychologically impose their opinions. Whilst some may react to it with dramatic derision, others accept it the same way they'd accept “The Sun is hot.”.(I believe this is how cults and totalitarian regimes work.) Beneath all reactions to psychologically imposing opinions, there's a fundamental “objectivity instinct” that turns off our opinion identifiers.(On a loosely related point, perhaps this is the what "intrusive thoughts" do.)All opinions are opinions, but in my own opinion, some opinions are less opinion-like than others—including this post, which you either reacted to with dramatic derision or dramatic delight, as it’s psychologically imposed upon you—the essence of objectivity. Submitted April 28, 2024 at 01:34AM by ValuableBreakfast527 https://ift.tt/r67pKqP via /r/Music