In the early 2000s there was this idea that harry Potter etc was saving literacy by getting kids to read, and now what we have is a culture where huge swaths of people lack adult media literacy partly bc they only ever read fantasy slop & only approach art as a sort of imagination-play
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Media is either good or bad. Flawed media isnt allowed to exist.
Art must entertain YOU. Or its bad. If you are required to put in effort to understand or simply lack the experiences to resonate with a work its the artists fault 1/2
Its not easily consumable therefore it is pretentious and therefore bad and shouldnt exist.
The idea is that art is to cater to the audience and thats all ppl took away 2/2
Like this is ultimately adult illiteracy, to not be able to process fiction as anything other than "a story" or "a world to imagine"
It just simply never happens and the big victory is the shitty status quo stays as is.
also why are you on Xitter.
Those are the people who know what twitter has become, and still choose to hang out there
I think many people have a very superficial, juvenile, credulous relationship with art/fiction & imo part of reason is that they spent many years feeling self-satisfied about "reading" even when the reading relationship is just escapism for entertainment
And of course, media consumption as Morality.
"Problematic"
simply changing up the order of events made for a MUCH more impactful final showdown than what Rowling put down
especially since it puts a LOT more weight on Neville's contribution
honestly - movie version makes a LOT more sense