Digibro the best anime analyst #4: The disturbed mind of a pretentiously...(the problem with subjectivity)

Digibro the best anime analyst #4: The disturbed mind of a pretentiously…

looking back on this with a more empathetic lens, I get where he’s coming from in spirit. He focused on how it made him feel so he could appeal to people emotionally so they can have just as good a show as much as a pleasant experience based on his feelings at the time. But the problem is he emphasizes the feeling more than the structural analysis.

I used to be like that, but as I commented before a year prior, it ’s still for the wrong reasons, if it’s about feelings then it boils down to justification than analysis.

Fact is- feelings change, emotions are subject to fallacy but objective observation based on tried & true standards (even if they oppose how you feel) doesn’t contradict itself.

When feelings is your standard, you do what Digibro did here, you contradict yourself, you don’t even commit to how you thought you felt because how feel now maybe not be what you felt 2 hours ago, let alone 2 or 20 years.

Liking something because of how it made you feel, and it being good because it’s good because ABC to Z are two different things.

I like Dragon Wars 2007 because it’s entertaining, but Dragon Wars 2007 is a garbage film, in almost every way. Just because I like it doesn’t mean it’s good.

Spider-Man 2 2004 is a well made film, good acting, good production, but despite growing up with it, it’s actually one of LEAST favorite films.

So inversely,, there is a difference. Regardless how it made you feel in your feels, what did the show/movie/book actually do?

There’s but so much feelings can do on it’s own. 

This is why the “everything is subjective” stance doesn’t have any weight, if everything in subjective then so is the statement “everything is subjective” equally meaningless;  if there is no standard, why even heed that quote to begin with if just anything goes according to individual whim. 

This is why dichotomy & standards exists, not to prison us, but to guide to make the best possible judgements (Judgements, something else people seem to be allergic to despite doing it everyday).  

There’s nothing more depressing than being aimless & just slave to impulse.