I like the concept of narratives (make it “affective narratives”). Every problem looks like a nail. This bias doesn’t necessarily determine what gets decided, as the factions can fight over the outcome, but it results in discarding all the relevant considerations, leaving only the sufficiently polarized ones. The perception of facts gets distorted without an agreed-upon affective bias for a specific cause. A cult-anticult field that doesn’t necessarily consist of a pair of organized cults. When the cults are organized around the poles, it gets worse, but the first stage is like spontaneous fluctuations from sanity to both sides along the given direction.
This possibly creates an approach to the question posed in Do Fandoms Need Awfulness?. If there is a controversy, it creates factions, which start to argue in an adversarial mode, creating an affective narrative that draws attention to a few simple properties of the object of fandom, raising them to absolute, which appeals to the people who value these properties.
I like the concept of narratives (make it “affective narratives”). Every problem looks like a nail. This bias doesn’t necessarily determine what gets decided, as the factions can fight over the outcome, but it results in discarding all the relevant considerations, leaving only the sufficiently polarized ones. The perception of facts gets distorted without an agreed-upon affective bias for a specific cause. A cult-anticult field that doesn’t necessarily consist of a pair of organized cults. When the cults are organized around the poles, it gets worse, but the first stage is like spontaneous fluctuations from sanity to both sides along the given direction.
This possibly creates an approach to the question posed in Do Fandoms Need Awfulness?. If there is a controversy, it creates factions, which start to argue in an adversarial mode, creating an affective narrative that draws attention to a few simple properties of the object of fandom, raising them to absolute, which appeals to the people who value these properties.