There's a quote from Steven Bond, some guy whose web site I read a while ago, regarding why he critiques awful movies: "Why do I review crap? Simple: for pleas

There's a quote from Steven Bond, some guy whose web site I read a while ago, regarding why he critiques awful movies: "Why do I review crap? Simple: for pleasure. For the sheer joy of it. Every piece of crap you like is an immense world of delight waiting to be explored. Crap is a driving force, crap is inspirational: nothing urges me to set things right more than seeing them done wrong. I'm especially pleased when the crap is so bad it makes me angry — for anger is a pleasant sensation. To feel your bile rise and your blood boil, to feel a rush of fury — why, it's the pleasure of being alive, of feeling some actual emotion instead of the constant dull fuzz of the easily contented." http://plover.net/~bonds/stupidresponses.html http://plover.net/~bonds/stupidresponses.html Partly it's that. Anger towards the system very often gives you the energy, motivation, and experience enough to make something great. The two big projects I've done - the book I wrote last year, and the site I'm building the beta of now - both had some element of hate against the system that was preventing me from doing something. It's not good to dwell in the emotion, but using it is useful.