Critic – is the first person who’s trying, seeing something before all others. His mind should be free of emotions, open-minded and ready to write from his own point, clear and honest. But how the opinion of the one can be the general opinion about something for others? Just a simple example, I’m not a big fan of coconuts, so what, everybody should feel the same about coconuts? Hell no, they can enjoy this beautiful tropical fruit. What I understood from this article is that we all our own critics, and it is only our final decision about something. I really liked when A. O. Scott mention Rotten Tomatoes, because I like to watch movies and very often my personal opinion is completely different from the reports of “Critics” and “Users”. Of course I am taking some time and looking at the reviews of people if I’m planning to get the table in the restaurant or order a food online, but I trust more regular people then critic’s reviews only because restaurants are aware that “these” guy can destroy their place just with one bad article about the food or service, and they do anything to make him feel special.

I really liked when author encourage us to be our own critics when he was saying:

“Enough of that! It’s the mission of art to free our minds, and the task of criticism to figure out what to do with that freedom. That everyone is a critic means that we are each capable of thinking against our own prejudices, of balancing skepticism with open-mindedness, of sharpening our dulled and glutted senses and battling the intellectual inertia that surrounds us. We need to put our remarkable minds to use and to pay our own experience the honor of taking it seriously.”

He is trying to open our eyes and start living our own life without the help of anybody from outside. It is very deep, because, nowadays people are hiring other people to help them figure out what to buy and what to wear (professional shopper), what to say, how to act, where to go and so on. People loosing they own opinion in many aspects of their own life. Another thing that still blows my mind is that people are spending all their money in an attempt to keep up with fashion trends. They do not care how comfortable or useful the cloth they wear is, they just want to be up to date no matter if tomorrow is going to be a completely new attire.

I really like this article and my personal opinion, I respect the people who have their own opinion about thing in their life’s but at the same time do not put it on top of others, and feel bad about those who lost themselves in the mob of voices.