My Life In Fandom: The Razor Rants About The Culling Of Carano

The Excellence of Elocution cut a rant about the recent Point-and-Shriek attack.

The one-two punch here is a shot at both the Pop Cultists whose reaction made this entire thing possible in the first place followed by a shot at the Cuckservatives going all "Much Principles" about folks telling the Devil Mouse to get thee behind them.

Both are pathetic and childish "Daddy will rescue me!" responses to a situation that clearly calls for actual effective responses, a phenonemon that Aeoli Pera savagely called out as fucking pathetic and ultimately self-destructive the other day at his blog.

The reality here is that (a) Star Wars is done and (b) the corporate owner hates the audience for it despite that audience having made an idol of the property and worshipping it as a substitute for authentic, true religion. The Big Corporate types hate the audience because they behave as mindless paypigs. The Death Cultists hate the audience because they will not conform to the Death Cult.

In both cases, the response is to debase the idol the Pop Cultists adore and worship by sanctioning fanfiction that serves the same function in a cultural sense that debasing coins: reducing the quality by flooding it with quanity of lesser-quality material. Big Corp wants to suck the paypigs dry forever. Death Cultists want to spread the poz. Both see debasement of the Pop Cult's idol as the means to the end, and they are in an untouchable position to do so.

The only effective response is to walk away entirely.

Do not give them your money. Do not give them your time. Do not give them your attention--note that I avoid so much as mentioning the Big Brand or any of its key players just so I can't be SEOed into giving attention to them--and for the love of God watch something else. You're spoiled for choice; you just need to go get it. Walk away from the Devil Mouse.