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>tfw you finally realize that reading fiction is just unhealthy escapism and Chad is actually living out his fantasies instead of dreaming
How do I deal with this feel?

>> No.13598783

Reading fiction about Chads living out their fantasies

>> No.13598789
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No one is living out their fantasies. Why do you think superheroes are so popular? People fantasize about being impossibly strong, smart, skilled, and righteous. But being the best isn't about what you do, it's about what you are. A person who seeks to constantly improve themselves will still likely go their whole lives never even getting close to winning an olympic sport, but they'll become more diligent, their drive and will to see things through and their optimism and resolve will increase. Being a great soldier isn't about being able to single handedly win a war, it's about being able to go into a war, fight and die, and know that no matter what you'll do you'll still lose anyways, and yet choosing to fight all the same.

>> No.13598790

you realize there're things like realistic fiction that you can actually learn and conceptualize shit from, right

>> No.13598791

>>13598781
>places arbitrary value on enacting fantasies
>arbitrarily devalues reading fiction
>struggles with this "conflict"

Mass literacy was a mistake

>> No.13598793

Art isn't escapism. It's aesthetic splendor, which puts you in more in touch with life, not less.

>> No.13598820

>>13598790
>you can actually learn and conceptualize shit from a book
Queue Stealing the Network. One of the greatest pieces of instructional fiction ever written.

>> No.13599154

>>13598789
>Why do you think superheroes are so popular?
Not with chads
>People fantasize about being impossibly strong, smart, skilled, and righteous.
Maybe the betas that watch superhero films do
>But being the best isn't about what you do, it's about what you are.
Exactly, not matter what you do, you will never be a chad.
>know that no matter what you'll do you'll still lose anyways, and yet choosing to fight all the same.
Is this the cope of a non-chad because they certainly win at life.

Basically
>If you're not born a chad then fantasies are understandable because your not going to win at life but if you try really hard, you still won't win but at least you won't be as bad as the other non-chad that didn't try.

>> No.13599158

>>13598781
You came to the wrong realization.

>> No.13599163

Who gives a fuck about Chad
Just suicide already OP

>> No.13599168

>>13598781
as a lifelong nonfiction autist, my learning and success gains have shot through the roof after I started reading fiction

>> No.13599174

false dichotomy. typical western dialectic. It is not either or, it is as well as.
holy moly what i mean can not even be really said in this shittier frenchlatin language called english.

>> No.13599273

>>13598781
I think dreams are just as important as non-dreams.

>> No.13599298

>>13598781
>Implying I read Notes from Underground to dream about being an imbittered, self-defeting nihilist

If you're reading fiction for escapism than you'd be better off reading YA or fantasy

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>>13599174
>he discovered lingual boundaries but he didn't overcome them

>> No.13599613

>>13599154
Imagine being this much of a sad , sad shit for brains cuck
For the love of god
Have sex

>> No.13599625

>>13598781
>tfw you finally realize that enjoying paintings is just unhealthy escapism and Chad is actually living out his fantasies instead of dreaming

>> No.13599627

>>13598793
I agree with you, but then again, you must also take into account the reader's intent and most of them do indeed utilize fiction as a form of escapism.

>> No.13599668

>>13599174
>both/and
eazy

>> No.13599727

>>13599154
Fag superhero films are the most popular movies in existence, absolutely everyone sees them

>> No.13599800

>>13599727
And you think this is a good thing? It's pure fantasy, uncritical, unrealistic bullshit.

>> No.13599875

>>13598781
>tfw you finally realize that happiness and learning is just unhealthy escapism and Chad is actually living out his fantasies instead of dreaming

>> No.13601175

>>13599613
>Just have sex lmao XD

>> No.13601285

>>13598781
Read nonfiction.

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>>13599154
Your defeatist attitude is why you lose. You throw away your potential out of the false belief that you have none.

>> No.13602005

>>13598781
It would probably just be best if you killed yourself.

>> No.13602019 [DELETED] 

>fear of missing out
embarrassing

>> No.13602037 [DELETED] 

>>13598781
I have never read books for escapism. All the books I've read have scumbags as protagonists, why would I swap my life for theirs?

>> No.13602082

>>13599154
you have read too much fiction if you think that this is how the world works

>> No.13603423

>>13598781
Peterson

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