Fandom has toxified the world

Magic art by Caio Oliveira

Below, excerpt from an article by Alan Moore published on The Guardian the 26th of October. 

Read the complete piece HERE.

[...] I believe that fandom is a wonderful and vital organ of contemporary culture, without which that culture ultimately stagnates, atrophies and dies. At the same time, I’m sure that fandom is sometimes a grotesque blight that poisons the society surrounding it with its mean-spirited obsessions and ridiculous, unearned sense of entitlement.

[...] An enthusiasm that is fertile and productive can enrich life and society, just as displacing personal frustrations into venomous tirades about your boyhood hobby can devalue them. Quite liking something is OK. You don’t need the machete or the megaphone.

Candidly, for my part, readers would have always been more than sufficient.

Alan Moore

The complete article can be read HERE.