Museum collections have given photography rigor, and mortis.
If you are bored with your own photography you are really bored with what you are photographing, so pick a new subject about which you are knowledgeable and enthusiastic.
Discussions allow photographers to shuffle their prejudices
Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.
At exhibition openings always praise the chicken for laying eggs; you can wring its neck later.
I agree, intellectualism in photography is overrated. I just wish it could be replaced by common sense.