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.
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Memories compress all this away. You don’t remember the empty time. Unless it’s charged with emotion in which case it’s not really empty.
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Neutron stars are just as empty, or rather, the notion of emptiness (or even of space itself) has become meaningless two orders of magnitude ago, counting down from the macro world. Down there it’s all vacuum fluctuations.
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Opens to questions of what exactly is meant by meaning, meaningful & meaningless (also emptiness)
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