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*nodding*

I'm thinking maybe the question or the idea loses something in the absence of the whole correspondence, a fact that's interesting in itself. An idea floating untethered to the conversation that came before could mean all sorts of things, and so elicits all sorts of responses that are surprising to me--because I have the correspondence and know that [X, Y, or Z] are not at all what my friend was suggesting or meaning. So this has been a lesson for me in how sharing things contextless is not a very wise idea. (I mean, I should know that? But.)

Trust me when I say that my friend in no way thinks that attending a performance of a play is a form of human disconnection, or that fandom sharing is a glassed-off way of being in society ... But there was no way for you to know that from just the quote, and I share your rejection of these notions--as my friend would, too.

About the last thing you say, "I am not sure that's a participation-vs-spectatorship problem"--can you say more? Tell me more about how you're thinking about it?