Take a short story you like. Add all the meaningless detail the author omitted as irrelevant, like going to the bathroom or doing dishes. Add all the waiting/repetition montaged away as extra white space. Now delete original story. What’s left is what escapism escapes from.
I wonder if there are any books written from a different perspective of information relevance - sort of like stream of consciousness but stream of phenomenology instead. Finnegans Wake for people who find smells as relevant as social stories 