I was ridiculed! Berated! Publicly excoriated!
:D :D
Other issues, those that go beyone mere fandom, are more complex.
I think politics is a spectator sport now, where people choose teams, even if they don't know much about the game, how to play, the rules, or what the objective is.
In anything, or just consumerism.
In anything really. I am trying to think of something where I strive to be first. Might think and get back to you on it.
Oh gosh yes definitely politics. No complexities at all for the fans of that slave system. Good example. Now if you step out of being a fan of one team or the other, the issues become highly complex. The only thing I ever know for sure is that any entity of mainstream information sources is not telling the full truth, or even the half of it.
But back to you, is that blassee-ness since the stroke, or have you always been that way? You can't ever remember being a true fan of something? Nothing comes to my mind for this either, actually. And as far as I know, I have never had a stroke.