tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post4589458734980407774..comments2024-01-07T05:28:45.522-08:00Comments on Thmazing's Thutopia: The Orson Scott Card Stigma Part one: Fighting the ManTh.http://www.blogger.com/profile/16460795570237872290noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-73192968572655317372013-02-25T11:37:59.698-08:002013-02-25T11:37:59.698-08:00.
Right. If we start dropping every artist we fin....<br /><br />Right. If we start dropping every artist we find impolitic, we're going to start running out of artists. Though I admit I'm more likely to be gregarious to writers whose work I already love as opposed to writers I have not yet read.Mr.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10844222029915042003noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15224520.post-40141734795759927212013-02-25T10:39:06.115-08:002013-02-25T10:39:06.115-08:00The whole thing has made me question where I draw ...The whole thing has made me question where I draw the line between art and artist. I love the Ender series. I decidedly don't love the man himself. And it's not just a matter of not liking him--as you point out, his rhetoric is harmful to the dialogue overall, and thus potentially harmful to me personally. But I will likely see the Ender's Game movie, even though that will put a little more money in OSC's pocket and thus fund the platform he stands on when saying these harmful things. And if I were so inclined, I'd buy the Superman comic he's writing, but as it happens I'm not buying a lot of comics lately and this one doesn't particularly interest me. And yet I refuse to eat at Chick-Fil-A, and I'm not sure what the difference is. I enjoy (or used to enjoy) Chick-Fil-A at least nearly as much as I enjoyed the Ender series. Perhaps it's that I see value in OSC's work and artistic value is unique to the artist in a way that fast food value is not--I can eat at In-N-Out and not feel like I'm missing out on Chick-Fil-A, but other artists' works are not going to so easily replace the value in OSC's works. And I do believe, quite strongly, that even people who say incredibly stupid and harmful things can also say things of great value. B.G. Christensenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01604354633985676126noreply@blogger.com