I used to think like that, but then I realized that's not really a productive line of thought because it doesn't offer a course of action.

The root problem is the fandom phenomena in the first place. You're complaining about all our idols being corrupted but if you don't engage in idolatry in the first place then it isn't a problem. For too long, media has been a feast or famine situation where fans become highly invested in a small number of franchises. This is unhealthy both on a personal-mental scale and on a societal one.

Why is it that, in a world where common people have the technical capacity to make stuff like Prelude to Axanar, that they insist on using it to make, well, Prelude to Axanar instead of going full MacFarlane and making The Orville?

Franchise fandom is bad and we need to move back to the old pre-Star Wars era of genre fandom. People need to open their minds to more, and more people need to have confidence in their own ability to create. We live in the future where a person with a FUCKING PHONE can shoot, edit, and distribute a thriller movie if they had the idea to do so.

I used to think like that, but then I realized that's not really a productive line of thought because it doesn't offer a course of action.

The root problem is the fandom phenomena in the first place. You're complaining about all our idols being corrupted but if you don't engage in idolatry in the first place then it isn't a problem. For too long, media has been a feast or famine situation where fans become highly invested in a small number of franchises. This is unhealthy both on a personal-mental scale and on a societal one.

Why is it that, in a world where common people have the technical capacity to make stuff like Prelude to Axanar, that they insist on using it to make, well, Prelude to Axanar instead of going full MacFarlane and making The Orville?

Franchise fandom is bad and we need to move back to the old pre-Star Wars era of genre fandom.

I used to think like that, but then I realized that's not really a productive line of thought because it doesn't offer a course of action.

The root problem is the fandom phenomena in the first place. You're complaining about all our idols being corrupted but if you don't engage in idolatry in the first place then it isn't a problem. For too long, media has been a feast or famine situation where fans become highly invested in a small number of franchises. This is unhealthy both on a personal-mental scale and on a societal one.