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November 23, 2005

QotD: Fandom

"Amber, if it exists, I guarantee you there's a fandom community for it. Every social group behaves just like the fans we make fun of.

"There's factions who want things the way they were when they were kids and think anything new is corrupting and evil, counter-balanced by young sycophants who roll their eyes at anything from before they were born. Every new development is heralded as the slippery slope into the end of days.

"Politics, organized religion, PTA Meetings. They all function as identical overlapping microcosms of the same human behavior. It doesn't matter if they're celebrating Strawberry Shortcake, the King James Version of the Bible or Adolphe Menjou. Fandom is Universal."

"Highways."

"I can point youto the newsgroup. Some think the new Hwy-49 is an insult to the old Hwy-49."

David Willis, "Shortpacked", 2005-11-17

Posted by Nicholas at November 23, 2005 01:01 AM
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