This guy is full of shit. First of all, since when do artists and directors really give a shit about critics’ opinions? Secondly, when you work in an industry where your success depends upon being popular (such as making movies or making art) you had better give a shit what people want in these areas. You’d better give a shit about general public opinion. Otherwise you’re an irrelevancy, and there’s nothing worse than someone who makes art or films or something along that line that is completely irrelevant.
If you own a store, you better give a shit about what sort of rating you have on Yelp or whatever fucking website he’s talking about. I don’t know how that site works, but I do know that 4 stars is not as good as 5 and that when I look at something on the Internet and one thing is rated higher than another, I’ll go with the higher-rated product. So his buddy who owns a business is perfectly justified in caring about what some “critic” posted because that critic can and has altered the perception of the quality of his business.
If you have the best business in the world but it isn’t popular because of poor critics’ reviews then having a great business doesn’t mean shit. Businesses exist to make money, not to serve as some warped incubator of what some fag with tattoos on his face in an attempt to be ironic or anti-establishment refers to as independency or “alphaness”.
As far as his religious views go, if you believe in the Heaven and Hell dichotomy, then the religion you believe in probably doesn’t look lightly upon those who wish others to go to Hell. The whole conversion thing he’s talking about is him simply projecting his own thinking onto those he doesn’t like. I find it EXTREMELY, EGREGIOUSLY ironic and hypocritical that he’s condemning people for trying to convert others to their way of thinking while he is literally preaching to a room full of people why HIS philosophy is the way to go.
Male chauvinism has existed since the beginning of Time, not the beginning of the feminist movement. I suggest this guy look up the etymological root of chauvinism. He also seems to confuse masculinity with chauvinism, but they are entirely separate. One can certainly be a masculine man without being chauvinistic. Of course, this guy doesn’t know that chauvinism simply refers to the belief that one particular group is superior to another. I like to think of myself as a masculine man, but I certainly am not chauvinistic and I definitely own my balls.
I hear all this complaining about how other people think and act and how society works, and yet he turns around and says he wishes his enemies were to burn in hell rather than convert them. So why does he give a fuck about how society works? If he is determined to separate himself from the pleasures and comforts of conformity, then why does he want to bring others with him? Why all the mentoring?
Isn’t that the same as trying to convert others? Also, his views are obviously skewered and rooted in a narrow, highly-biased and wholly ignorant idea of how the world works, yet all I hear is him talking about other people. Maybe he should look inward first.
I also find it ironic that this guy is a walking billboard for anti-establishmentism (I made that word up). The fact is that it has always been really “cool” and “hip” to be anti-establishment. It’s a trend just like anything else. And this guy is the walking epitome of that trend. The reality is that “not giving a fuck what others think about me” is about as conformity-seeking as one can get when you look like that guy.
He’s screaming to everyone that he doesn’t care what others think with his appearance, which literally means that he DOES give a fuck what others think about him. All the tattoos and piercings are just designed to advertise that sentiment to everyone else. If he really didn’t give a fuck he wouldn’t try so hard to convey that sentiment to everyone else.
