Stories are also, on the first order, just a way to make up evidence about things that supposedly happen in the real world and have people who become invested in them treat them like they really happened And it ACTUALLY SEEMS TO WORK Which is messed up
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People will literally treat a fictional novel as a "case study" of what happens when you leave kids alone on an uninhabited island Or a science fiction dystopia as an "analysis" of why socialist governments inevitably become authoritarian tyranny Without even blinking
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My fucking teacher apparently had his view of "the occult" heavily shaped by this classic spooky story a British dude wrote as fictional entertainment I knew someone who said her mom actually had some kind of religious revival from watching the Mel Gibson movie Signs
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