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Fiction matters - it's good fun. Even if we're just now aware that we're swimming in a sea of fiction. The only thing that's changed recently is that we're now
by benjohnson 9y ago
Fiction matters - it's good fun. Even if we're just now aware that we're swimming in a sea of fiction.
The only thing that's changed recently is that we're now just more capable of being aware how much bad reporting and government tomfoolery is going on - we always been lied to.
- croon 9y ago> The only thing that's changed recently is that we're now just more capable of being aware how much bad reporting and government tomfoolery is going on - we always been lied to. We're post-fact for the specific reason that that statement is both true and utterly false. Whatever mess we're currently in, it's explicitly because we (collectively) weren't capable enough of being aware of bad reporting, and while it's gotten louder this last year, I'm not sure we've gotten better at it.
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- tremendulo 9y agoIt certainly is fun, but it's also a source of metaphysics and morals. For example, children can read Harry Potter, want to be in Gryffindor (at least in their imaginations) and grow up better people as a result. One could spend a decade citing the results of scientific studies, advertising all the fashionably-correct political opinions, extolling the benefits of eating more organic vegetables, exercising and so on. Never achieving a similar result.