Depends. If you're reading the same old normative low-entropy "old-school soap opera" things (even if it's not a novel), you'll be fine. If you step out of th

Depends. If you're reading the same old normative low-entropy "old-school soap opera" things (even if it's not a novel), you'll be fine. If you step out of the bubble, it becomes painful to the point of destroying/changing your life. Eg. real history of India that is outside the totally controlled colonial outposts of London/NY, and how closely the European moves till date matches what they were doing in classical non-Xtian Rome (many projects to this day are named after the genocidal Xtian "saints" from back then.).