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It’s the equivalent of going to a doctor who diagnoses you solely on your outward appearance, without doing a single X-ray or test.

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Everyone has, and is entitled to, their own opinion. You don’t have to always agree with them, but you do have to respect the fact that they are entitled to it.

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A good story, when we question it, is much like this universe, this Earth.

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This is not to say that media criticism is useless because all art is subjective. I faithfully read any number of critics and enjoy it most when I disagree with them. Perspectives on art are necessary because no piece is truly perfect or truly awful.

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Henri Lefebvre’s 1974 book The Production of Space argues against the concept of empty or geometric space and in favor of social space. He was a committed Marxist and his idea that space is never truly empty but always filled in or mediated is perhaps just a philosophical refinement of the argument against neutrality or objectivity.