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Fiction is dangerous because it has an overly powerful way to change thoughts as it isn't constrained by what's true. This is a fundamental feature of language
by lotsofmangos 12y ago
Fiction is dangerous because it has an overly powerful way to change thoughts as it isn't constrained by what's true.
This is a fundamental feature of language. Fiction is a feature of words. Story is the very basis of a technologically aggregating culture like ours. We describe things that do not exist, so that we may build them.