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Originally Posted by KimyReizeger
But, if you think about it, this is actually what happens.
Think for a second of 'culture', quite simply, as shared beliefs, attitudes and practices within a community. You seem to be suggesting an individuality and detachment from said community, brought about by consciously 'not paying attention' to popular things which disinterest you, subsequently remaining unmoved. I think that it's impossible to detach youself from the culture that fundamentally contains you, physically and mentally - shared beliefs growing and changing together, influencing one another. So if the over-riding mental exertion of a culture that you belong to amounts to HP worship.... I depend on this culture for certain things, which means I need to participate, and thus, can't merely 'switch off' and remain unaffected by the things that don't interest me.
...more for the sake of argument than a particular gripe against Mr Potter.
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That's probably a clearer way of thinking about it than I've been putting accross. What I've been getting at is that I may not like Harry Potter (which I don't), but I can be aware of the culltural impact and choose to acknowledge that for the both good and bad thing that it is, but also never bother reading a Harry Potter book (which I haven't) or having to much of a connection to it (which I don't).
It's not about disconnection, as such, it's more about dislocation from certain things.
But your way of explaining it was better.