Why have I suddenly lost all interest in meta? Seriously, up until a few months ago or so I was neutral to fascinated, but all of a sudden every time it comes through I think "oh, crap, not again." Honestly, I'm starting to feel anti-intellectual. Or possibly like an inhabitant of New Haven. (There was a study done in New Haven, CT, which revealed that some huge percentage of New Haven residents--I don't remember what it was, but well over half--had been part of a Yale-initiated research study in the previous year.)
I'm fairly certain I said no interruptions.
Buffy ,'Potential'
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Katie M - Jul 27, 2004 10:35:20 am PDT #8671 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Dana - Jul 27, 2004 10:44:19 am PDT #8672 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Because you feel like you've seen it all?
Katie M - Jul 27, 2004 10:48:31 am PDT #8673 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Sigh. Yeah, probably. Makes me feel unkind to forever be thinking "oh, for fuck's sake, who cares?" though. Oh well.
Connie Neil - Jul 27, 2004 10:53:56 am PDT #8674 of 10000
brillig
I've never worried about meta. My literary criteria has always been "Did I enjoy it?". When people point out meta things, I can see them, but I very rarely see them for myself.
Dana - Jul 27, 2004 10:58:02 am PDT #8675 of 10000
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
I think most people hit that point with meta talk. I did. It's not that I don't find the topics themselves interesting, but I have very little that's new to say, and most people don't have anything new to say, so I'm pretty content to go off and read new fic instead.
P.M. Marc - Jul 27, 2004 12:21:22 pm PDT #8676 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Why have I suddenly lost all interest in meta?
Because when fandom talks about itself, it stops producing anything other than endless essays about fandom and becomes really hella boring?
Katie M - Jul 27, 2004 12:29:29 pm PDT #8677 of 10000
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
Well, I used to be interested, though. It's just in the past five or six months that I've started feeling the desperate urge to jump up and down saying "fandom is not your thesis!" (Which is, of course, often incorrect.)
Eh, whatever. I'm having a moody week anyway.
erikaj - Jul 27, 2004 12:37:27 pm PDT #8678 of 10000
Always Anti-fascist!
It's gotta be Mulder. Logan would, like, drink too much and not follow doctor's orders...and I'm thinking about this, why?
P.M. Marc - Jul 27, 2004 12:48:35 pm PDT #8679 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Well, I used to be interested, though. It's just in the past five or six months that I've started feeling the desperate urge to jump up and down saying "fandom is not your thesis!" (Which is, of course, often incorrect.)
Tastes get conflated with beliefs too often for my comfort in meta discussion, so I'm down with a firm "whatev" at the moment.
Michele T. - Jul 27, 2004 4:41:58 pm PDT #8680 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi
I do guiltily enjoy the "critique, good or bad" meta flamewars, because both sides generally end up looking foolish.