I was thinking of the scene from Amadeus.
Mozart fights for the right to display The Marriage of Figaro. The emperor admits he has passion. Mozart worked hard, and some would have thought him arrogant to think it was the best Opera yet written, but… I don't know. Sure, he writes to his tastes. So one could say he wrote the best according to his standard. And maybe, history proved him right.
But with any work, of any art form, it is like a child. We love ours with a blind passion. And, we can get bitterly offended when someone attacks it. On the other hand, what if a person is giving us solid advice on how to get your 'baby' to reach its full potential? Which is worse? A critical eye on one's work? Or, like the the emperor, an unwillingness to even see it? Hence a need to fight…
So, just a strange aside: is it callous for people to hate the fact they show pictures of their children on social networks?
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