Consider the passionate obsession of the star wars fan.
Now imagine there were no alternate stories. Imagine a society which only had star wars stories, because they were too poor to come up with a second fandom.
Read the myths of ye olde societies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naraka_%28Buddhism%29
Very imaginative. Vivid and evocative spectacle. And exactly like fanfiction. Narcissistic human invention, not curiosity-driven alien discovery.
All religious fundamentalists are LARPers. They got so into their fandom they pretend it's real life. A star wars nerd becoming emperor and outlawing "passion" (ironically) because what would a jedi do.
Mortals are the children of satan. Naturally they will believe in fanfiction rather than in science. What world religions show is that, without competing fandoms, the believers become qualitatively more obsessed. I would say it grows by two stages.
Believing in Reality requires discipline. Fiction can be tuned to be maximally plausible, to be glib and flattering, to require nothing and less than nothing of the listener.
They themselves know the fanfiction is fiction. There are various ways they reveal this. They don't treat is as a hypothesis, and neither should you. It's an imposition, not an investigation. "Love my waifu or else."
One way: divine law doesn't need to be reiterated in human law. The gods can (and will) enforce that whether you help or not. At best the human law corrupts and gets in the way.
Another way: adjusting or editing the [[scripture]] is verboten. Because lies, unlike truth, are fragile. If you adjust a scientific model, errors naturally decay, returning to the foundational truth behind the model. Lies just break.
The illusion of plausibility and respectability shatters. Either it's a small change but makes everything look different, showing how preposterous the previous trust was, or it's a large change, should look preposterous, but functions exactly as well as the old, showing by parallel that the old is also preposterous.
However, fundamentally religiousness is being a geek. The difference between a star wars obsessive and a christian obsessive is merely that the latter isn't necessarily seen as low status, so it has no restraint. That's it. That's all.
All lightside priests are otaku. Except the fujoshis, I suppose. Otaku less the restraints of scorn and derision.
A fortiori: the reason otaku are scorned is precisely because their fanfiction competes with the [[winning]] fanfiction. By having a different waifu, they implicitly claim the popular [[normal]] waifu is trash. Otherwise, why should anyone care? What business is it of yours?
The point is imposition. (Not investigation.) Because lies are fragile. When tested, even against other lies, they shatter.
"Now imagine there were no alternate stories. Imagine a society which only had star wars stories, because they were too poor to come up with a second fandom" hey that's exactly what i said!
ReplyDelete"my impression of the energy around star wars versions is its a combination of deficiency of doujins/creators, an excess of religiousity/followers, a great impact on psyche, and the same factors being shared by a large number of people thus amplifying everything with social thinking
oh, and a shortage of stories. at the time of star wars release capeshit had been regurgitated for over 30 years. today it's been regurgitated for over 100. star wars was a big one (aimed big) that did things differently. there are others, but all in total the number is too small relative to the population.
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ive seen several manga/anime that were good and then got ruined but i don't care, partly because what the author thinks a waifu should do stands in my mind next to a hundred doujins of her getting fucked in various ways, and partly becauseit stands in my mind next to a hundred other manga/anime, and partly because i don't really care what other people think if they're fuckin stupid.
it's like that one image about the death of player servers causing the death of online videogames
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one or two or three are only important if you can only have one or make less than one
if you can make a thousand it's just whatever you feel like is better that moment
discussing the logic etc of how one specific one is better sometimes leads to better results. it also sometimes hinders the production of the other nine hundred ninety nine so that you can see new ideas at all."