Often, the tendency is to call something “boring” and “slow” when we don’t understand it or lack the energy to make a stab at comprehension. But I think sometimes there are other forces at work as well: cynicism and pride. Cynicism makes us skeptical that there is meaning, truth, beauty and goodness out there worth exerting much energy in unpacking. We’ve become satisfied with lesser pleasures and dubious about the merits of that which we don’t immediately know or connect with. Pride, then, has a tendency to constantly reinforce a sort of self-satisfied status quo, where we prefer what we’ve discovered and distrust that which others insist is a masterpiece (especially when we don’t–or can’t–quite see it).

An excerpt from an article by Brett McCracken written for issue 53 of Relevant Magazine.

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Painting above by Stephen Gibb

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