Everyone wants to be liked; everyone wants approval. No one likes being ignored.
There's a lot of mediocrity being celebrated, and a lot of wonderful stuff being ignored or discouraged.
Negative freedom is freedom from - freedom from oppression, whether it's a colonial power or addiction to alcohol oppressing you. You need to be freed from negative freedom. Positive freedom is freedom for, freedom to be. And that's what's routinely ignored today.
My only agenda is to bring attention to otherwise ignored and shunned lives.
If the people in the audience are talking, you're being ignored. If the people are gazing at you, you've got something they want to hear.