It's a good thing that no truly "perfect" thing can exist, perfect implies a limit and no room for growth, also known as stagnation. So because nothing can be perfect, there will always be something to do, good or bad.
In the words of a great philosopher “if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs”. Great video as always, perfection does not exist and that’s a great thing for art!
I’ve been thinking about perfection recently too and I think I came to a conclusion similar to yours. If you had to rate every media you consume on a scale of one to ten, it’s always easy to see where points should be deducted, find the flaws or areas you didn’t love or connect to as deeply as others, but it’s harder to see when they could be added. I think loving something and considering your special connection to it is totally fair to factor into your rating of something, whether you want to rate with a number or utilize the word “perfect”, flaws or things you didn’t love as much as the rest will almost always be present and being close enough to perfect is as good as being perfect. I’ve also found myself conflicted about giving a rating to things that are objectively better than the things I love. Otherside Picnic and Dark Gathering are two anime I love because, among other things, Otherside Picnic’s “Otherside” world reminds me of the zone from the film “Annihilation”, a concept I’ve always loved where characters explore a world that looks like ours and is accessible from it but the rules it operates by and creatures that inhabit if are altered in ways that make them beautiful, wondrous, scary, and unfamiliar. Dark Gathering and Otherside Picnic have a lot of elements that appeal very strongly to me, but on a 1-10 scale they objectively don’t even deserve a 5. The characters are constantly making stupid decisions and acting in dangerous situations without a plan, often just getting incredibly lucky to escape from the danger they put themselves in for no reason in the first place. My point is that those shows, despite their huge flaws, appeal to me in ways different to and stronger than any other anime show has, and to give them what I’d consider to be a fair “objective” rating of 4/10 when other anime that are objectively better but which I didn’t LOVE like I did these two feels wrong somehow. I’m not attached to the idea of giving media a score out of ten in the first place, it’s just what MyAnimeList uses and prompts you to give when you finish a show. My recent realization about perfection though might make me give up giving scores. If I can point to a show I rated 4/10 and say I liked it better than a show I rated 6/10, what use is it?
I just arrived at this channel and I needed to say I love this video so much, and all the thoughts you presented. I'm so glad you brought up that things can be perfect to us based on how and when we experience them. I think of various works of art, video games, and books to be perfect because they appeared at certain times in my life, I connected with them, and typically my life's trajectory changed to allow me to experience something that has become a core of my current identity. I could have had it an "objectively better" way, but if I could choose to go back as the me I am right now, I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Great video, I’ve had a similar thought a lot. Personally when I love something and have no issues with it I give it a 10/10 but for something really special and touches me in the soul I give it an 11/10, for some reason I feel like it portrays my feelings of the work better.
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It's a good thing that no truly "perfect" thing can exist, perfect implies a limit and no room for growth, also known as stagnation. So because nothing can be perfect, there will always be something to do, good or bad.
My thoughts exactly.
In the words of a great philosopher “if every pork chop were perfect, we wouldn’t have hot dogs”. Great video as always, perfection does not exist and that’s a great thing for art!
More points for subjectivity
crazy that we have to keep reminding ourselves of this (myself included)
"perfection and power are overrated, choose happiness and love is a wise decision" Uncle Iroh
Always a fount of wisdom, that man.
I’ve been thinking about perfection recently too and I think I came to a conclusion similar to yours. If you had to rate every media you consume on a scale of one to ten, it’s always easy to see where points should be deducted, find the flaws or areas you didn’t love or connect to as deeply as others, but it’s harder to see when they could be added.
I think loving something and considering your special connection to it is totally fair to factor into your rating of something, whether you want to rate with a number or utilize the word “perfect”, flaws or things you didn’t love as much as the rest will almost always be present and being close enough to perfect is as good as being perfect.
I’ve also found myself conflicted about giving a rating to things that are objectively better than the things I love. Otherside Picnic and Dark Gathering are two anime I love because, among other things, Otherside Picnic’s “Otherside” world reminds me of the zone from the film “Annihilation”, a concept I’ve always loved where characters explore a world that looks like ours and is accessible from it but the rules it operates by and creatures that inhabit if are altered in ways that make them beautiful, wondrous, scary, and unfamiliar.
Dark Gathering and Otherside Picnic have a lot of elements that appeal very strongly to me, but on a 1-10 scale they objectively don’t even deserve a 5. The characters are constantly making stupid decisions and acting in dangerous situations without a plan, often just getting incredibly lucky to escape from the danger they put themselves in for no reason in the first place.
My point is that those shows, despite their huge flaws, appeal to me in ways different to and stronger than any other anime show has, and to give them what I’d consider to be a fair “objective” rating of 4/10 when other anime that are objectively better but which I didn’t LOVE like I did these two feels wrong somehow.
I’m not attached to the idea of giving media a score out of ten in the first place, it’s just what MyAnimeList uses and prompts you to give when you finish a show. My recent realization about perfection though might make me give up giving scores. If I can point to a show I rated 4/10 and say I liked it better than a show I rated 6/10, what use is it?
I just arrived at this channel and I needed to say I love this video so much, and all the thoughts you presented. I'm so glad you brought up that things can be perfect to us based on how and when we experience them. I think of various works of art, video games, and books to be perfect because they appeared at certain times in my life, I connected with them, and typically my life's trajectory changed to allow me to experience something that has become a core of my current identity. I could have had it an "objectively better" way, but if I could choose to go back as the me I am right now, I wouldn't have had it any other way.
Great video, I’ve had a similar thought a lot. Personally when I love something and have no issues with it I give it a 10/10 but for something really special and touches me in the soul I give it an 11/10, for some reason I feel like it portrays my feelings of the work better.
excellent video bro
whats the game @1:34
That ain't a game, it's a scene from Lain.
Also Kiznaiver pfp. Nice.
No i think perfection exists only objectively and says nothing about how we like it. So something can be perfect and i can still dislike it.