The pleasure of a good negative rant

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Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on May-08-2009 23:33:

The pleasure of a good negative rant

When I looked over this thread in the music production forum, I couldn't help but notice that people were ready to write a lot more about the negative side of production than the positive side. This is something I've noticed more generally, too: it seems like people spend a lot more time ranting against things they hate or dislike than they do praising the things they like.

Think of Fred Phelps and his family's harassment of gays and grieving military families -- and also of the people who feel stirred to indignation by this and spend time ranting against him. Think of political pundits, most of whom are so consistently negative. Think of Dante's Inferno, so much more popular than the Purgatorio and Paradiso (heaven) that many people probably don't even know the latter two books exist.

I think that for a lot of people (I include myself) it feels really good to let off a bunch of steam and gather up all their rhetorical resources to strike out verbally against an "enemy." But we don't get nearly the same pleasure out of doing the same to exalt the stuff we enjoy. For example, I've praised and denigrated lots of different tracks in the music forum, but it seems like my angry or irritated rants are always much longer and more forceful than my positive posts.

Thoughts on this asymmetry?

Posted by Sunsnail on May-08-2009 23:36:

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Posted by MrJiveBoJingles on May-08-2009 23:36:

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Originally posted by Sunsnail
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Link?

Posted by elFreak on May-08-2009 23:36:

still not getting any eh?

seriously though, people put their work out there for critiquing, the negative feedback is the most useful to make improvements. If everything is super duper awesome, what is there really to say? This isn't slobberonsomeamateurspenisaddict.com

Posted by chach on May-08-2009 23:40:

go outside bitches its friday!!! you too old man!

Posted by elFreak on May-08-2009 23:41:

fuck that shit, i was up at 4am. The only place i am going is to bed and maybe to the rub n tug before the gf gets home.

Posted by chach on May-08-2009 23:42:

so you are going to see yukki?

Posted by elFreak on May-08-2009 23:48:

ughh i wouldn't not even with barbina's penis.

Posted by Banora on May-09-2009 00:33:

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Originally posted by elFreak
seriously though, people put their work out there for critiquing, the negative feedback is the most useful to make improvements.

This is so very true in, well, everything. You can always improve on your work in some way.

Posted by noikeee on May-09-2009 12:48:

this thread is so negative lol plz delete it

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-09-2009 12:56:

Being positive risks putting your true likes out there for others to criticize, and who wants to do that? It's much easier to criticize others than defend your own taste/opinions. 95% of debates go this route (especially in the PDD).

Posted by Halcyon+On+On on May-09-2009 13:00:

I don't believe you are correct to reduce critique to enmity. I see what you are saying, I just do not believe they are the same thing.

Though of course that's not to say that all critique has purely altruistic aims or anything like that.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on May-09-2009 13:01:

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But we don't get nearly the same pleasure out of doing the same to exalt the stuff we enjoy.

disagree. i get equal pleasure from both, because they are equal facets of what makes me, me.

Posted by Lebezniatnikov on May-09-2009 13:06:

Seriously, pkc raves his tits off over BSG all the time.

Posted by pkcRAISTLIN on May-09-2009 13:37:

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Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Seriously, pkc raves his tits off over BSG all the time.

exactly!!! and lets not forget supcom!