I guess? I mean, god knows I read through a shit ton of Ed Greenwood and Bob Salvatore pulp crap as a kid but I don't think it was "bad for me". It didn't prevent me from reading actually good books later. Cultivated the pleasure of reading so I would actually do that.
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Replying to @danlistensto @palecur
i mean i ain't got no high horse or nothin', i've read plenty of Greenwood and Salvatore but even more Piers Anthony. there's a cornpone thread in these kinds of things that i do think fucks people up if they become dependent on it, though, like that's how you get Comicsgate ppl
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I don't follow. Reading a book as a kid will make you into an uncharitable reader as an adult with political grievances and an ax to grind on Facebook or something? hwat?
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
I think more of a thing where a reading diet consisting solely of D&D tie-ins constrains intellectual development and leaves one open to regarding challenges to that universe as attacks on one's own identity. Which is the core of goobergrape.
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
well that's a pretty sad outcome. hard to reason about counterfactuals, but if you're talking about a person with that degree of incuriosity and ego fragility, it's not the pulp fantasy novels that's fucking up their emotional and intellectual development.
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Replying to @danlistensto @palecur
enh, yes and no. there's a feedback loop between the pathologies we bring to our indulgences and the ways our indulgences reinforce our pathologies and i don't think it's as simple as saying one is blameful and one is blameless
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
looks like we're doing a Lacanian reading after all
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Replying to @danlistensto @chaosprime
isn't that just a meta-Freudian 'everything is 8 symbolic layers deep' thing or do you mean something else by the term
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Replying to @palecur @chaosprime
ok the first time I was talking about doing psychodynamic readings of fictional characters. this time I was making a joke that we're now psychologizing the outgroup in a twitter thread.
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Replying to @danlistensto @palecur
i just want to put in here re psychologizing the outgroup that i'm extremely like all the motherfuckers i have the most hate for (movement incels, *gators), have veered insanely close to winding up like them and any commentary i make is extremely there-but-for-the-grace-of-Eris
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i psychologize them from the perspective of having jumped off the cliff and caught a branch and extrapolating to what it might have been like to hit bottom
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Replying to @chaosprime @palecur
I mean, same, though I never got as far as jumping. Just a nice long gaze into the abyss.
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