HPMOR threads are often better sourced than discussion on politics. People also change their minds on /r/HPMOR more often than in anything political.
If anything, on the surface it looks like people take their Harry Potter fanfiction more seriously than politics.
yes the fact that there is a single text which everyone can refer to is part of what makes discussions about hpmor more interesting and less vindictive.
But since there isn’t a single readable description of the state of the world, politics doesn’t have that advantage.
People (though not, generally, here) also treat which Harry Potter characters should hook up with which as a question of apocalyptic significance. Something being “pure entertainment” does not preclude identifying strongly with it or acting like it’s extremely important, whether or not it is.
Does something being purely entertainment make it a mind-killer? If so, I’m not sure that something being a mind-killer is necessarily bad.
it would be fine if people treated political discussions like hpmor threads but they act like the conversation is extremely important.
HPMOR threads are often better sourced than discussion on politics. People also change their minds on /r/HPMOR more often than in anything political.
If anything, on the surface it looks like people take their Harry Potter fanfiction more seriously than politics.
yes the fact that there is a single text which everyone can refer to is part of what makes discussions about hpmor more interesting and less vindictive.
But since there isn’t a single readable description of the state of the world, politics doesn’t have that advantage.
People (though not, generally, here) also treat which Harry Potter characters should hook up with which as a question of apocalyptic significance. Something being “pure entertainment” does not preclude identifying strongly with it or acting like it’s extremely important, whether or not it is.
Though the reverse is also true.