I didn’t. I don’t particularly have to go out of my way to find Twilight fans, but if I did, I wouldn’t.
How do we distinguish the difference between the kind of fanaticism that mentally unbalanced people display for, say, a show that is considered by many to have unhealthy themes and the kind of excitement that normal people display for the things they love? Maybe Twilight isn’t the best example here.
I think you’re dramatically overestimating the degree to which fans of Twilight are psychologically abnormal. Harlequin romance was already an incredibly popular genre known for having unhealthy themes. Twilight, like Eragon, is a mostly typical work of its genre with a few distinguishing factors which sufficed to garner it extra attention, which expanded to the point of explosive popularity as it started drawing in people who weren’t already regular consumers of the genre.
I think you’re dramatically overestimating the degree to which fans of Twilight are psychologically abnormal.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.
This still does not answer the question “What sample can we use that filters out fanaticism from mentally unbalanced people to compare the type of excitement that gifted people feel to the type of excitement that everyone else feels?” Not to assume that no gifted people are mentally unbalanced… I suppose we’d really have to filter those out of both groups.
I didn’t. I don’t particularly have to go out of my way to find Twilight fans, but if I did, I wouldn’t.
I think you’re dramatically overestimating the degree to which fans of Twilight are psychologically abnormal. Harlequin romance was already an incredibly popular genre known for having unhealthy themes. Twilight, like Eragon, is a mostly typical work of its genre with a few distinguishing factors which sufficed to garner it extra attention, which expanded to the point of explosive popularity as it started drawing in people who weren’t already regular consumers of the genre.
I wouldn’t be surprised if this is true.
This still does not answer the question “What sample can we use that filters out fanaticism from mentally unbalanced people to compare the type of excitement that gifted people feel to the type of excitement that everyone else feels?” Not to assume that no gifted people are mentally unbalanced… I suppose we’d really have to filter those out of both groups.
Taboo “mentally unbalanced”.