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Any books that defend escapism?

>> No.16738676

The Unique and its Property

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>>16738605

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>>16738605
Just more escapism.

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>>16738605
The biographies of successful entrepreneurs

>> No.16738769

>>16738701
I really like this photo.

>> No.16738777

>>16738605
It's been a while since I saw your lovely face.

>> No.16738784

Directly? Not what I know, but what comes to mind is Three Men in a Boat, Zazie in The Metro and Locus Solus.

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The Bible

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This is alright, from what I remember. Has a very broad interpretation of escapism though, as in the general desire to be somewhere else. He argues that it has some psychological merit as a means to explore other possibilities than the status quo through fantasies.

>> No.16738802

>>16738787
holy shit is this real?????

>> No.16738809

>>16738787
fake

>> No.16738877

Imagination is the lifeblood of existence

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>>16738701

>> No.16738899

>>16738605
yee i kinda came to like escapism and fatalism, would be nice to see a perspective which acknowledges it´s perceived patheticness but still knows it´s a pretty honest philosophy if you are sincere about it.

I would prefer to have super cringe friends who play DnD and have their own head canon about tv shows
than a /lit/ reader who is an pseudo stoic tradcell and worships the romans.

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>>16738605
Life is varying degrees of escapism anyway, people reeing against escapists are just escaping their own need to escape, their form of escapism is based on escaping the feeling that whatever experience they are having, meaningful or otherwise, boils down to some type of escapism

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Tolkien defends Escapism properly understood in his essay On Fairy Stories. “Evidently we are faced by a misuse of words, and also by a confusion of thought. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”

>> No.16739005

>>16738949
>>16738978
if you just look at the thumbnails it looks like tolkien has a little party hat

>> No.16739019

>>16739005
very nice

>> No.16740386

>>16738605
Unironically Finnegans Wake

>> No.16740981

Any books that refute escapism? I'm sick of the falsehoods in fiction and pop culture.

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>>16738978
>Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?”
Pure nihilist drivel.

>> No.16741026

>>16741007
Oh nonsense

>> No.16741037

>>16738899
>I would prefer to have super cringe friends who play DnD and have their own head canon about tv shows than a /lit/ reader who is an pseudo stoic tradcell and worships the romans.
This is the exact opposite for me, because unlike you I am all too aware of the former entail and had the misfortune of dealing with their worthless superficialities for years. They are genuinely shit people, and at the least the /lit/ pseud tradcel has a real person underneath the fantasy they elaborately crafted for themselves.

>> No.16741062

>>16741026
If all you see around you are gray walls then you are a life-denier.

>> No.16741072

>>16741062
If grey walls are all that’s around me, I’m going to enjoy myself.
If nihilism is the fact, weather it.

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>> No.16741267

>>16738605
>Any books that defend coping?
Never going to make it.

>> No.16741276

>>16741007
Here’s your nihilism >>16741267

>> No.16741312

>>16738605
Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Władysław Tatarkiewicz's A History of Six Ideas

They don't defend escapism, but they may help you personally defend it.

>> No.16741870

>>16738605
yeah my diary on "do what you want, fuck you"

>> No.16742375

gnostic texts. this reality is sub par anyways and art provides escape through transcendent aesthetic experiences.

>> No.16742503

Reminder that you can't be a 4chan regular and also be against escapism. Every time you come here you're escaping to an online world where nobody knows who you are, you're never held accountable for your actions, and you can talk about whatever you want, whenever you want, uninhibited (with some restrictions, obviously, but still far fewer than real life).

>> No.16742956

>>16742503
sure if you don't define escapism you can do whatever abrasive parading of your deficient personality and social skills as you like