Also “conventional wisdom” has (IMO) little if anything to do with being a good critic. Some of our best critics are iconoclasts.https://twitter.com/ADuralde/status/1211119790124748802 …
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Anyone who’s read me lately knows that I think that today the very notion of “conventional wisdom” has taken on a suffocating power that limits the ways we think about and talk about art. The idea of “conventional wisdom” (as it pertains to media and arts criticism) is a problem.
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Or at the very least, people like to weaponize the idea of conventional wisdom to shore up the indisputable correctness of their own opinions. In some circles it’s just “conventional wisdom” that The Last Jedi is objectively bad thanks to its “SJW politics.” Etc.
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