People who can see through the conventions of entertainment and who enjoy posting about those conventions for free are likely to be much more awake than usual.
Here's a variant on that. In fiction, everything is calculated to manipulate you or fulfill some simple recognizable pattern.
Troping is training in figuring out how the manipulation works and what the patterns are; this is a skill that carries over into everything else. (Doesn't matter if it's an author trying to manipulate you - or a bad argument.)
This is our monthly thread for collecting these little gems and pearls of wisdom, rationality-related quotes you've seen recently, or had stored in your quotesfile for ages, and which might be handy to link to in one of our discussions.