Article re: obsessional fannishness

[pegkerr]

From Arts and Letters Daily:

The geek shall inherit the earth. Well, let us hope not. The truth is that most sci fi and fantasy fans are infantile, escapist people, as shallow as they are socially inept... more

.Well, isn't that . . . acerbic. And from someone who counts himself (herself?) a fantasy fan, too. (See, e.g., the author’s defense of Tolkien--which admittedly doesn’t particularly plow any new ground at all.) However, it does touch upon something I’ve been thinking about myself lately, about the difficulty of managing (and perhaps dubious usefulness) of some of my obsessional jags.

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[blackholly.livejournal.com]

I think that as society becomes more global and there is less of a sense of local neighborhoods or towns as microcosms, people are going to increasingly create their own microcosms based on interests. Then, people are going to increasinly try and rule their microcosms (or at least acquire some level of status therein).

Hence, geekly obsession.