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Fantasy is a category of lying, though. Artists tell lies that we voluntarily suspend our disbelief of in order to immerse ourselves in a world that doesn't exi
by hypertele-Xii 5y ago
Fantasy is a category of lying, though. Artists tell lies that we voluntarily suspend our disbelief of in order to immerse ourselves in a world that doesn't exist, IMO to learn something about ourselves.
Santa Claus is a legend. Sometimes we "act out" these legends in a fake display to honor some distant past truth buried under millenia of broken telephone.
The moral of the story is, lying is OK, so long as you're honest about doing it.
- omnicognate 5y agoThat's just semantics, though, isn't it? My point is that there's a difference between the sort of thing Santa Claus is and the sort of thing storks delivering babies is, whatever terminology you use. I don't think we disagreed on that?
- kayodelycaon 5y agoAs an author, I strongly disagree with the semantics here. Lie implies there is deception involved. The idea of a story being “true” conflates deception and history. (History being the full context of what has actually happened.) 1. All fantasy is not history. 2. All deception is not history. It does not follow that all fantasy is deception. Fantasy comes from imagination. For the audience who reads a story intending to be fictional and known to be by both author and audience, there is no deception.