"But you shouldn't have to contend with an agenda that does not jibe with your own. Many poets who walk away from Slam do so not because they're so scary smart or good, but because they are people with fragile parts prone to breakage during shipping on the way to a better Them."
Perhaps. And while I don't slam anymore and critique it relentlessly, I still see myself as part of it, in an off-kilter way. The crazy uncle who keeps trying to make it better than it is by talking about it loudly and aggressively, I guess.
In my humble opinion, people listen to your critique and criticism of slam more carefully (than they would have otherwise), because we perceive you as part of it.
I have to say I've seen a lot of people get disgusted with the "dick measuring" and posturing bullshit that seems to go on when people get up to the national level (and I've seen it at the regional level, too). They may not get personally slimed by it, but they get disgusted with the bullshit attitudes of the "it's about the points not the poetry" people
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I see all the "dick measuring" and posturing bullshit, and ego and in-it-for-themselves and tired same old poems OUTSIDE of slam. Which makes me agree with Scott that although slam allows these things to exist, they are not the product of slam itself.
"...Many poets who walk away from Slam do so not because they're so scary smart or good, but because they are people with fragile parts prone to breakage during shipping on the way to a better Them."
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Hmmm. I'm not sure I agree with that assessment.
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yep. very well articulated.
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