Steve Bennett wrote:
On 7/22/06, Ray Saintonge saintonge@telus.net wrote:
Definitely a constructive approach. Can we read something into the fact that all the heavy discussion in this thread has focussed on only one of the four areas outlined in the essay?
Yes. It's apparently very difficult to define the problem with fictional universes, besides the fact that people are biased against them. I, too, am biased against them, but can't find many decent reasons for that.
Maybe many of us are just plain ambiguous about these pop-culture related topics. At the same time I was heartened by the thread about the Australian newspaper that praised Wikipedia for its work in this area. I confess that when I am being the passive user I am more likely to use Wikipedia as a first choice to find out about pop-culture questions than about almost any other subject.
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