zen_monk | A constant enough thought (Reply)

A lot of times when I think about fandom, and I do that a lot since such is the nature of Tumblr as is this non-collective collective of individuals, is that:

1) I gotta be more conscientious and critical of fiction and media consumption and analyze all the things that go into it and how people react to it, while also shaping it to their will (while also considering people's reactions and shapings and analyzing their schticks).

and then:

2). Man, this is just fiction, so what?

Of course I don't really believe in number 2, but there are days I really start to question how good is it to stay firmly in the abstract (which is what fiction is to me) in order to understand the real?

(dammit, and I just remembered my fucking late paper [which i got an A omg thank you teacher almost everyone in my class kinda dislikes for some pretty solid reasons] which is all about how abstraction leads to understanding and clarifying reality, omg it was my teacher's paper that he published for a philosophy journal ugh I failed you in the Pragmatics department. I am somehow rejecting William James and Pierce.)

And obviously when i mean fiction, I mean like book and anime fandoms and not like the importance of myths and folk tales a la King Arthur and Mulan.