Beliefs are, essentially, opinions that people hold to very tightly without any evidence to support them.

Folks believe in gods, aliens, ghosts, trickle-down economics, eugenics, and all sorts of interesting things. They believe that crime rates are rising in exactly the same way.

While it is possible for someone to have a change in their beliefs, that change does not come easy. Certainly it does not come by presenting them with data that contradicts. Our best chance to change mistaken beliefs is in a dramatic and shocking event. The nature of a suitably dramatic and shocking event to shift a belief in the rise of crime eludes me completely.

Which gives us only plan B in two parts:

1. present younger folks with the actual information and help them avoid falling into the collective delusion
2. wait for older folks to die.

It occurs to me that we could speed this up by killing all the older folks, but that would obviously have an impact on crime statistics.

I’ve been reading it. The folks here are most definitely in the minority.

And that’s fine. I don’t know why it would bother anybody.

You are strange for not loving the film. It is generally loved so, yeah, not loving it makes you strange.

There’s nothing wrong with that. Some folks don’t love chocolate. Or puppies. Or sunsets. Or whatever seems to be loved by most folks.

I’ll cheat the question a bit.

I’d like all critics to have standards and to hew to them. I don’t mind if each critic operates by different standards, so long as all critics can articulate their standards and are consistent in their application.

Most movie critics, for example, are offering their reactions to movies. They may review a movie. But nearly all of them are utterly inconsistent (hypocritical?) in their work. They explain their bad review of a film because of X and then praise another film despite it being just as much X as the film they loathed. If they address this conflict at all, it is with a great deal of handwavium - “This film makes it work.”

If critics had standards, it would be possible to really compare the things they critique. Without those standards, each thing gets its own bespoke write up. Very entertaining, but useless when we want to know which is better or worse.

I shouldn’t have to. Any God worthy of the title would provide clear and irrefutable proof of its own existence.

Hopefully, the mixture is 1% anger to 99% admiration. And that they are inspired to demand more for their labor as well.