the reader is a passive receptacle for information, any mismatch between the author's and reader's vision is a mistake on the part of the author in not imparting detail in enough granularity
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in other words masculine- and feminine-coded. and the two styles of fan communities do tend to attract more men and women respectively
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back on politics, it's interesting to me the author of the piece closes by attacking this very view of the world as the worst of postmodern excess
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explicitly rejecting the idea "that there are no facts, only competing stories about the world" and tying this back into his worldbuilding dichotomy
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I like to refer to the mindset of viewing consumption/manipulation of storylines as equivalent to understanding/controlling reality as narrative poisoning
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but at the same time the world only really seems legible through the prism of narrative, there is of course an underlying "reality" but it isn't directly accessible
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and the fact that most people take their narratives to be reality means while reality-as-competing-narratives may not help describe reality it does help describe people
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and while you cannot control reality directly through narrative, you can control it through people by the instrument of narrative. what reality actually is maybe is academic
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anyway the competing political narratives that purport to describe the reality of current events can probably be better thought of as fandoms that believe they're canons
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