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I've learned more wisdom from reading science fiction than any "classic" literature. Scifi takes an angle of looking at humanity from the vantage point of the potential, thereby gaining a broader view, and the fanfastical nature allows the writers ruminate on the topics deemed taboo in "serious" discourse, like racism, eugenics, theory of mind, sexuality, deep state etc. Not to mention that most sci-fi writers were educated stemlords, why the canon was written mostly by liberally educated, bored aristocrats with too much money
The fuck can a classic novel really teach me, other than that some dipshit britbong christian had marital problems 200 years ago?

>> No.19470880

>>19470873
You haven't learned anything, and I'm wise enough not to read the rest of this post.

>> No.19470882

>>19470873
The fact that you can’t expand your mind enough to answer that question is the exact reason you can’t answer that question. If scifi is the end all be all of the human condition, why can’t it explain to you the importance of the classics on the western world and the zeitgeist of the human condition?


Is this board full of children?

>> No.19470885

>>19470873
NEED SAUCE PLEASE OP

>> No.19470901

>>19470873
fiction can be brainwashing. the author can present false scenarios that allude to the real world and provide nonsensical explanations of them with impunity.

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>I've learned more wisdom from reading science fiction than any "classic" literature.
Then read some classic literature, wouldn't take much to catch up. Good luck OP.

>> No.19471017

>>19470873
>I've learned more wisdom from reading science fiction than any "classic" literature
Doesn't tell us much since we don't know how much classical literature you've read.
>racism, eugenics, theory of mind, sexuality, deep state
I am going to assume that you are an American.

>> No.19471028

I don't think OP reads at all

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>> No.19472452

>>19470882
>western world