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I think... you're bringing a lot to this discussion that wasn't there until you introduced it.

• zug_zug 4y ago
  I feel like that arrangement of words is almost conveying something.
  • coldtea 4y ago
    Yes it does. It says that a lot of uneeded assumptions and other baggage regarding "wanting to like something" as it relates to social pressuse was hurled at the grandparent, based on an simple suggestion for which work to get if you want to ease yourself in to a writer's body of work. The intention of the grantparent was simply to suggest some accessible work a new reader of said author might better appreciate. Regardless of that, wanting to "get" an artist and dig deeper into their work should be lauded, not scolded. "Social pressure made me read Shakespeare or listen to Miles Davis" would probably count as one of the best uses of social pressure. We could use more of that, and less of "I only consume whatever I feel like at the moment based on myself alone, I will never consider artists and writers well-liked by others, praised by critics, or part of a canon, and try to get into them". Which is solipsistic, besides being impossible in general.