Comment on A night at the theater with Neil deGrasse Tyson
PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee 7 months agoThe amount of bullshit a story expects you to just accept to be able to follow its logic and plot points.
For example, Harry Potter expects its readers to just ignore that magic is physically impossible and that a world like what Rowling describes would have WILD implications for the course of human history that would render notions like “The United Kingdom” and “Trains” and the like probably non-existent in favor of a society that better reflects what those forces would shape the world as.
Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 7 months ago
The biggest suspension of disbelief that HP expects of us is that racism, slavery, antisemitism and more are all things we should just accept from a society that can literally play god.