L'enfer c'est les autres.
Me and HP fandom have totally grown apart, and maybe, just maybe I've grown up.
Now saying you've grown up is not necessarily growing up, but I think I did realise something.
Arguing on the internet is DUMB.
*insert special olympics joke here*
Now if "arguing on the internet" were Special Olympics I would have been a favourite in the marathon discipline. And I used to be proud of that.
I am still proud of that, actually. In the same way, I imagine Van Gogh was proud of his cut-off ear - an act so lunatic that it might just have resembled genius. But really was just lunacy.
I learned something in the madhouse though:
A - trying to change people's minds or trying to get them to being open to new ideas: stupid.
B - arguing to change their minds: really stupid.
C - Passive-aggressive or just aggressive attitude: waste of energy.
I don't know where that does leave my fannish activities. Probably nowhere good. I think Satre was wrong to make his punchline so short. Hell isn't other people. Hell is being one of the other people.
Now saying you've grown up is not necessarily growing up, but I think I did realise something.
Arguing on the internet is DUMB.
*insert special olympics joke here*
Now if "arguing on the internet" were Special Olympics I would have been a favourite in the marathon discipline. And I used to be proud of that.
I am still proud of that, actually. In the same way, I imagine Van Gogh was proud of his cut-off ear - an act so lunatic that it might just have resembled genius. But really was just lunacy.
I learned something in the madhouse though:
A - trying to change people's minds or trying to get them to being open to new ideas: stupid.
B - arguing to change their minds: really stupid.
C - Passive-aggressive or just aggressive attitude: waste of energy.
I don't know where that does leave my fannish activities. Probably nowhere good. I think Satre was wrong to make his punchline so short. Hell isn't other people. Hell is being one of the other people.