I have no problem with reality falsifying my beliefs but I really don’t like my fiction rotation cache being invalidated by new historical moods. I don’t think I can enjoy Yes, Prime Minister or The Simpsons ever again. Even Hitchhiker’s Guide is under threat now.
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I sometimes pay attention to serious things, especially when I’m getting paid and they’re also interesting. But let’s face it, I’m not on Team Serious. I’m here for the escapism, not the work. I’m here for the TV and the tinkering, not dents in the universe or making history.
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It’s kinda funny how Team Serious agonizes about meaning and purpose when a large majority of us have discovered that meaning and purpose lie in escapism. TV for my generation, video games for the next, memes for the nextnext etc.
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Escapist life choices are supposed to lead to emptiness and lack of fulfillment, but turns out that’s just Team Serious projecting their angst onto us. We’re not that deep. You go on a spiritual quest. A good tv show about someone on a spiritual quest will do for the rest of us.
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Which isn’t to say we’re necessarily apathetic free-riders phoning in minimal mask-wearing hoping someone else cares enough to solve Covid and get new tv production going again. Ok sometimes we are. But we do pitch in a bit and at least try not to get in the way of Team Serious
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QAnon isn’t escapism. It is entryism. Inept and chaos-making, but genuinely auditioning for dent in the universe and a footnote in the history books at least.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1305037956365733894?s=21 …
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You know what’s the perfect escapism now that it’s basically become sci-fi? The West Wing
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Heh we’ve discussed that before too... that’s one show I never liked
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Technology is the greatest escapism, yes.
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