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StephenSeveroFirstPaper 8 - 02 Mar 2010 - Main.StephenSevero
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- Conceptually, I have a hard time buying that people are not writing because they're afraid of missteps. Sure, at the margins, fear I might be judged might make me not put something in writing (notably in email), but you have very little evidence to back up the idea that the work of Kafka and Dickinson and Vergil and (maybe more importantly) everything that has been built creatively upon it would have been worth losing to society. It's fairly obvious to me that we grow more by interaction than by lone rumination, and so I have difficulty accepting your claim to the opposite without much more than conjecture to back it up. Finally, as a practical matter, how would you suggest I should have made my brainstorming public? It was going on in my head. Other than using the TWiki editor and saving every few minutes (I happen to prefer a classical text editor, but considered that route), what could have made my work more public? -- DTRK - 01 Mar 2010
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> | I'll go through your points in reverse. Perhaps we mean different things by "brainstorming" - Posting on the wiki is exactly the way to make it public, and to a lesser extent a personal conversation. I think Nona's page is a good example of making brainstorming public. Keeping it between your brain and your text editor is "lone rumination". I think interaction is important, and hermitage (mental as well as physical) is the domain of gods and beasts. We, as a society, certainly do grow better by collaboration, and I don't see where I made the claim to the contrary. But I don't want to conscript anybody into that collaboration. If someone wishes their work to remain private, I don't want to force them to share. I also don't want to make the choice binary: total participation (publication) or none. If someone is hesitant, that will only further discourage them. I have no evidence for this (and it doesn't seem possible to have evidence for or against it), but it doesn't seem too large a step from Vergil's wish to burn his manuscript (he must not have heard "manuscripts don't burn"). Also, maybe it wouldn't create works to step up in their place, but so what? Culture will survive. There are plenty of great books by willing authors to take the place. And that's what I want - a literary culture built by willing artists. - Stephen Severo | | | \ No newline at end of file |
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