It idealizes the world in a maladaptive way. And not even just the positive aspects of life but the negative ones too. Reality resists attempts at being assimilated into a narrative, and thus disappointment is the only thing that can follow.
everyone on this board is so so bad at reading, i pity you
>>25634788Are u telling us that u are a homo?
Fiction can do something that nonfiction can't."Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed." -G.K. Chesterton
>>25636865Then having read all that the kid attempts to slay the dragon but ends up a middle aged twice-divorced stepdad with 1st stage prostate cancer and a 9-5.
>>25634788How is reading biographies any different
>>25636950There's hardly any. They are highly fictionalized and selective with what they choose to tell you.
>>25636911The dragon is within you, anon.
>>25636911My point. Reality give you no hope. Fiction at least tries to give you hope.
>>25634788>Reality resists attempts at being assimilated into a narrativeSure, if you’re thinking completely big picture. There is no “cosmic fate” save the universe entropy-maxxing itself into an atomic DVD screensaver before the last dead black hole swallows it up. But I’m not the universe. I’m a human being with dreams, experiences, and an internality that cold logic and cynicism naturally cannot totally crush no matter how reasonable it seems. All stories are fundamentally human stories, and that’s what makes them beautiful.
>>25636911that is called post modernism. and it is a cancer on the brain of the world
>>25634788Kek. Given that 'the world' is a tissue of lies that insists upon its 'reality' or 'truth' I'd rather read what owns up to its 'untruth' from the very beginning. Great fiction is anti-propoganda, which is precisely why it's being torn away from you, shillGot any other contemptible positions that would justify mental sloth?
>>25634788are you disingenuously conflating all fiction with tranime goonerbait slop? or are you really that fucking stupid. Or maybe this is just the logical conclusion of all demoralized zoomers constant bombardment of shit media and has never seen or read anything else
>>25634788Is this like Goethe's take on imagination but applied to a wrong thing on purpose?
>>25634788You have more rights and less obligations than people of the past because someone in the past looked at their reality and said "but what if it wasn't this unfair?" They spun stories about a future that was better than the ones they saw, shared those stories, and then someone else said "but what if we could make this true?" And then they tried to create that.Somewhere else, someone looked at the technology they had and then went "but what if we had something better?" They imagined things like personal communication devices and technology divorced from the need to be present. Other people with technical skills heard their stories and understood that it could be created.And now, here you are, with the right to spew your inimical nonsense on a device that transfers your idiocy across the world, unto a virtual place like a chan, where possibly innocent strangers will pass by your navel-gazing soap box or overwhelming stupidity.I imagine a future where it is every man's right to kill people like you, and hang their corpses in the town square as a warning to others. Whether or not my fictional future will come to pass, I can't say.But I can dream.
>>25637066>There is no “cosmic fate” save the universe entropy-maxxing itself into an atomic DVD screensaver before the last dead black hole swallows it up. This is fictional too. There's zero evidence for black holes and no one actually knows what the "ultimate fate" of anything actually is.
>>25637122>and less obligationsThe only obligations you had back then was getting food, water, shelter, and maybe paying taxes to your lord for protection. modern life by contrast is filled with an endless multitude of extraneous burdens that compound on these simple principles.
>>25637461Life during the agricultural revolution was 10x worse than it is today. Extreme amounts of work, famine and deadly diseases. Hunter gatherers are the only ones who might have had better lives than us.
Read Don Quixote (both parta)
>>25637624Medieval peasants worked far less than us, this is cope.
>>25637461>only obligations you had back then was getting food, water, shelter, and maybe paying taxesYou were obligated to work your Lord's land 2-3 days a week and it took priority over your own lands. You were also obligated to do boon work, which is additional labour the lord wanted done (repairing manors, digging ditches, clearing forests, etc). You had to do your lords milling, and sometimes baking and wine pressing. And of course you had tithes to the church, so not just taxes to your lord. Had to pay merchet so you would be allowed to marry, heriot when someone died, etc. You were obligated to partake in the defence of the demesne if your lord so needed. You are so ignorant it should be legal to beat you to death in front of your family.
>>25637827Give me some good non-fiction medieval peasant books to read so I can tell those retards to shut the fuck up with facts and logic
>>25634788>Reality resists attempts at being assimilated into a narrative,False. "Reality" is a narrative.
>>25637122I loved that story too. It justifies so much but requires exponential growth to manifest itself. The reality is humanity will almost certainly have a peak, a decline and an extinction. It's a rather new idea too, before the 19th century historical progress was hard to conceptualize and played no part in how previous generations viewed the world. If anything progress was an incidental thing.
>>25637837Bloch Feudal SocietyEileen Power
>>25634788>fiction is evil>cartoon frogClassic.
>>25634788I agree with you to some extent. Reading love stories written in the 1800s is completely removed from modern courtship and will turn you into a loser if you try it in real life.
>>25638450>modern courtshipNST, but, in the grimmest of all futures, its template of mindful, mutual respect may prove useful. I have classics in mind (Shakespeare, Austen, Dickens..) not Romantasy slop, btw
>>25637827You're just another libshit 4chan tard that fell for globohomo propaganda. I can see how young people are too anxious to breed in this era and realize there is something deeply wrong with how modern society is structured from the top-down. How is it that serfs and peasants had to allegedly break their backs to appease their lords (which is probably just projection from moderns that hate their boss), yet could still comfortably afford a livelihood where they had nearly a dozen children at a time *and* a wife to handle all domestic duties, yet moderns can barely cope with raising ONE child on a dual-income?
>>25638637The ability of humanity to persevere during terrible times does not suggest they didn't suffer while doing so. Your ridiculous reaction to well established historical facts tells me you belong on /pol/, not on /lit/. I'd ask you to cede the argument, but you're not going to because children never do. Your concession isn't necessary anyway, your failure here is plain to everyone. This exchange is concluded.
>>25634788go post in the accelerationist thread then
>>25638899>The ability of humanity to persevere during terrible times does not suggest they didn't suffer while doing so. Oh okay so you don't have an explanation for the failing birth rates in western countries then, typical.>Your ridiculous reaction to well established historical facts tells me you belong on /pol/, not on /lit/.Almost nothing you listed in your example entailed what we call "bullshit jobs" where no one's labor can be identified with having a strong cause-effect relationship between the labor done and the consequences of doing so. Modern life is TOO complicated because all the modern man knows is that their participation in a 9-5 society is "necessary" to keep the gears of civilization turning for one more day, but not why bureaucracy or making imaginary GDP score should matter to him more than fulfilling basic necessities like meat and bed, or why he also needs a degree (which is also built on a coercive, debt-based structure) to participate in one of these thousands of aforementioned fake jobs like so many others have. Yes, I acknowledge there's a relationship built on coercion between peasant and noble, but its more honest than it is between wageslave #547695 and Mr. Goldstein since it's literally established from the start to be coercive and necessary for survival.>Your concession isn't necessary anyway, your failure here is plain to everyone. This exchange is concluded.Okay bot, kys.
