bothered by mediocre critics and pretenders

but the thing that especially irks is that they cannot be circumvented by the energy and intelligence you have at hand. they are moving targets and to triumph over them you would have to simplify them, as any human being would have to be simplified. it would take more than the disposable energy you have, unless you made your project to combat mediocrity, and is that how you want your light spent? or spent creatively...