Certain awards make sense, like a Super Bowl trophy, an Olympic Gold Medal and even Nobel Prizes in Science. But the last one begins to delve into subjective judgement. One person’s scientific breakthrough maybe another persons end of the world. By the time we reach the Golden Globes it’s all politics, profit and corruption. In short fro…
Certain awards make sense, like a Super Bowl trophy, an Olympic Gold Medal and even Nobel Prizes in Science. But the last one begins to delve into subjective judgement. One person’s scientific breakthrough maybe another persons end of the world. By the time we reach the Golden Globes it’s all politics, profit and corruption. In short from objective to subjective merit, award shows slide on an absurdity scale.
Perhaps nothing proclaims this more than the annual award whiners. Your Kanyes, Jay Z’s, Ana Duvernays and now the author of the above article. They take that which is subjective and attempt to apply objective standards. “My wife has more grammies than...zzzzzz” or objectively pointing out racial disparities in Oscars but not accepting that objectively that most voters and box office subjectively judged “Selma” to be subpar fare.
What the author and others of the whinging class hope for is their audience will recalibrate their subjective compass to align with theirs. So the Oscars added objective racial qualifiers no matter how absurd the notion of a black Cleopatra maybe. They added a more intersectionally correct contingent of voters because objective surveys told them people often vote with their identities. So to this end, I suggest the Recording Academy take heed and seed their legions with aging boomers still addled with folk tunes from 50 years ago to rig some justice and Jay Z just pay some judges to subjectively come correct. The Hollywood Foreign Press figured all this out ages ago.
Certain awards make sense, like a Super Bowl trophy, an Olympic Gold Medal and even Nobel Prizes in Science. But the last one begins to delve into subjective judgement. One person’s scientific breakthrough maybe another persons end of the world. By the time we reach the Golden Globes it’s all politics, profit and corruption. In short from objective to subjective merit, award shows slide on an absurdity scale.
Perhaps nothing proclaims this more than the annual award whiners. Your Kanyes, Jay Z’s, Ana Duvernays and now the author of the above article. They take that which is subjective and attempt to apply objective standards. “My wife has more grammies than...zzzzzz” or objectively pointing out racial disparities in Oscars but not accepting that objectively that most voters and box office subjectively judged “Selma” to be subpar fare.
What the author and others of the whinging class hope for is their audience will recalibrate their subjective compass to align with theirs. So the Oscars added objective racial qualifiers no matter how absurd the notion of a black Cleopatra maybe. They added a more intersectionally correct contingent of voters because objective surveys told them people often vote with their identities. So to this end, I suggest the Recording Academy take heed and seed their legions with aging boomers still addled with folk tunes from 50 years ago to rig some justice and Jay Z just pay some judges to subjectively come correct. The Hollywood Foreign Press figured all this out ages ago.