
Ok you had me until the last point. I don’t know anything about this guy, but for anyone that profits from your engagement with their work that you can choose not to engage with does not inevitably need to have their work engaged with by you. You can choose not to buy from that shitty author, not to legally watch that movie directed by that shitty director, not to stream that song by that shitty artist. Will it make much of a difference? Maybe, maybe not. At least you can know you’re not-
It’s ok to mess up, we aren’t perfect and we fuck up sometimes and that’s just part of being human. That doesn’t mean you should never strive for better ever again though, one mess-up doesn’t ruin the whole run. You especially should never give in to apathy and nihilism, those are both the death of change and progress