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academia and arts criticism can be very self serving. while i see there is a place for it i donot want to be a part of it. being that i work in an area that can be pretenious as all fuck and hold quite alot of snobbery, particularly when you are new around the scene, you find you clan within that. theatre criticism at least in australia is very very parasitic but also a necessary evil. i find theatre academia to be quite deplorable a good percentage of the time. particularly because very few academics are involved in the professional theatre community at least in my state and some of the other states where i have worked. academia can suck the soul right out of art because it really takes away the immediate visceral and kinetic responses that people may have when engaging in art by far overthinking and a belief that them and them alone are the only people who truly understand an artists work.
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