I think I’m done with those on social media who fancy themselves cultural critics and religious authorities.
Yair Rosenberg, in a wonderfully fortuitous piece in his Atlantic newsletter, verbalizes my thoughts far more eloquently than I; granted, he’s talking about people who are critics for a living, but the sentiments can be applied to the self-styled critics among the unwashed digital masses:
“The problem with being a professional critic is that you end up consuming so much culture that you stop processing it like a normal person. …
“I know that my own preferences here are not the norm. But when critics lose sight of why most people consume culture, they start missing what makes most things popular. In their search for significance, they forget about the fun.”