If you want to find them in person, the latest Twilight movie is still in theaters, although you’ve missed the people who made a point of seeing it on the day of the premier.
Haha, I guess so. I am very, very nerdy. I had fun getting worldly in my teens and early 20′s, but I’ve learned that most people alienate me, so I’ve isolated myself into as much of an “ivory tower” as possible. (Which consists of me doing things like getting on my computer Saturday evenings and nerding so hard that I forget to eat.)
If you want to find them in person...
Not really.
the latest Twilight movie is still in theaters, although you’ve missed the people who made a point of seeing it on the day of the premier.
What did they do when you saw them?
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 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.
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?
If you have to go looking, you’re lucky.
If you want to find them in person, the latest Twilight movie is still in theaters, although you’ve missed the people who made a point of seeing it on the day of the premier.
Haha, I guess so. I am very, very nerdy. I had fun getting worldly in my teens and early 20′s, but I’ve learned that most people alienate me, so I’ve isolated myself into as much of an “ivory tower” as possible. (Which consists of me doing things like getting on my computer Saturday evenings and nerding so hard that I forget to eat.)
Not really.
What did they do when you saw them?
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 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”.
What distinction are you trying to make here?