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Treladon's avatar

Yes, I see now the fundamental principle why I can't stand both "drama kids" and leftists. It's that obnoxious desperation for an identity. Besides that, they need the divisive mentality you mentioned in order to build up whatever identity they think they're creating for themselves. I do have another group to add to this, though of course they irk me to a significantly lesser degree, and that's Catholic trad circles. Many of them consider themselves Catholic "nerds," in the same way you've described here. I do hope the TLM gets more mainstream just so that that mentality gets diluted some.

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samoan62's avatar

"people have far too much of their personal identity wrapped up in liking a certain thing (a thing they have no part in the creation of) and needing it to be good."

The terrible sequel trilogy taught me this. The real problem wasn't that the new Star Wars sucked, it's that people cared too much. There is so much to consume these days. People get their identities wrapped up in what they consume, and they forget that their primary identity should always be with their family, friends, religion and community. The "Nerd" identity is a problem and people who do so create all these barriers to exclude others and exalt themselves. At the end of the day Star Wars is just some crap someone made up. Who cares if it sucks.

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