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What's your favorite thing to criticize intelligently?

The intelligence is all mine it seems because I can never know what anyone really takes home. I love to critique/play with conceit; whether it's democracy, reformism, workerism, politics, advertising, consumerism, militarism, hoarding, housing, socialism. farming, religiosity, sex, etc. Though there is always jeopardy in the specificity, as I'm easily tranquilized by intrigue and boredom.

What's your favorite bit of criticism?

To muddy the filtered waters above, I enjoy nuanced antagonism—it's like poetry, or a psychogeography.

What's a story about good criticism that lingers for you?

For lingering criticisms, I have bittersweet ones which continue to shape my life and revolve around love, white-knighting and suicide. As for good, I remember forgetting being criticized for a thousand things I couldn't give a shit about.

When did you give or receive criticism and there was a surprisingly positive outcome?

Other than the bittersweets alluded to above, on the one-to-one level I am almost always surprised when I am engaged. I thrive in anticipating many of the things I could be criticized for and encourage feeling instead, with positivity coming from a conceit in both yours and my awakening/catharsis. I don't work very hard at any of this since coming to recognize better the quid pro quo of rationalization, although I am happy to fall into the same trap laid for me.