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I disagree with this. American culture is way too much about criticizing, snarking, and hating on things (and yes, I'm doing that in this tweet). Do we really need an ever-expanding professional class of people telling us not to like things? https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/1082372174042738688 …
_Good_ cultural criticism is worthwhile. Eg, I hated reading Neil Postman ("Technopoly", "Amusing Ourselves to Death") at the time, but later realized how important it was, and that it changed my thinking in important ways. OTOH, most cultural criticism is low quality.
Why did you "hate" reading Neil Postman and then realize how important it was? I haven't read his stuff, so I can't guess. If you "hated" it and then it changed your thinking, was it because he was criticizing something you liked at the time?
There are a bunch of minor issues with his work, which I was more or less using as an excuse to not engage since there were some uncomfortable issues for me with his broader thesis. But I perservered, and came to appreciate the broader POV.
I particularly like Alan Kay's Gresham's law of criticism - the notion that bad criticism drives out the good.pic.twitter.com/1THb0khBZt
It's too pessimistic, but there's an interesting piece of truth in the statement. Pondering the exceptions - the good critical cultures on the web - is interesting too. The comments sections of some top mathematical blogs are full of outstanding criticism, for instance.
It's important to distinguish the general act of cultural criticism from the *artifacts* of mainstream American cultural criticism, which since the 1960s coalesced around two poles: hippie-punk-MTV-etc. and God/guns/[anti-]gays. But in general, critics aren't builders.
Most is clickbait intended to inflame the reader to provoke interaction, exacerbated by social media, the lack of a feedback mechanism that rewards quality over controversy is part of the problem
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