{"id":21,"date":"2007-03-14T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/14\/so-what-does-it-all-matter-anyway-maybe-that-question-doesnt-matter-either-for-more-circular-meaningless-statements-read-on\/"},"modified":"2007-03-14T12:20:15","modified_gmt":"2007-03-14T19:20:15","slug":"so-what-does-it-all-matter-anyway-maybe-that-question-doesnt-matter-either-for-more-circular-meaningless-statements-read-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/2007\/03\/14\/so-what-does-it-all-matter-anyway-maybe-that-question-doesnt-matter-either-for-more-circular-meaningless-statements-read-on\/","title":{"rendered":"So what does it all matter, anyway? Maybe that question doesn&#8217;t matter, either. For more circular meaningless statements, read on."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I understand what Dr. Campbell was saying about how if we don&#8217;t distinguish a difference between taste and judgement, we essentially have nothing to talk about.\u00c2\u00a0 My previous blog, while relevant as far as bringing up some interesting questions, is largely unsophisticated because it is based on pure taste rather than acknowledging a sense of quality of a movie, judged by some sort of universal standard.\u00c2\u00a0 There <em>is<\/em> a difference between taste and quality.<\/p>\n<p>But does it actually <em>matter<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a0Well, to some, maybe not.\u00c2\u00a0 But to people devoted to the study of film, it happens to matter a great deal.\u00c2\u00a0 And what makes something matter more than something else?<\/p>\n<p>Absolutely nothing.\u00c2\u00a0 So then don&#8217;t we chose what matters to us, what we &#8220;obsess&#8221; about based on taste, not judgement?\u00c2\u00a0 Don&#8217;t we choose our obsessions based on exactly what we&#8217;re trying not to do with movies, based on what we like, what we enjoy doing, what we want to dedicate our life to?\u00c2\u00a0 Or do we choose our obsessions and interests based on what we think is of importance, of a quality, whether or not we actually like it.\u00c2\u00a0 And if that is the case, do we like the feeling of doing something important?\u00c2\u00a0 Even if we don&#8217;t enjoy watching Citizen Kane, do we enjoy the fact that we can appreciate a great work of film, even if it doesn&#8217;t appeal to our taste?\u00c2\u00a0 Enjoy the feeling of being accomplished, of having done something to be proud of?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m completely talking in circles and hopefully I&#8217;m making some sort of sense.\u00c2\u00a0 If not, I&#8217;ll try again later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I understand what Dr. Campbell was saying about how if we don&#8217;t distinguish a difference between taste and judgement, we essentially have nothing to talk about.\u00c2\u00a0 My previous blog, while relevant as far as bringing up some interesting questions, is largely unsophisticated because it is based on pure taste rather than acknowledging a sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/robyn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}