Fiction s for delusional people who'd like to escape reality by reading about people and events which don't exist and possibly pretend to be one of the characters themselves (especially "fanfic" writers... ugh), or just do it for cheap entertainment since they have no friends to keep them company. On the other hand, those who read non-fiction (both true stories and educational books) tend to read to enrich themselves and learn and are generally much more rational people overall, and don't need a form of escapism because their lives are good as it is, and can get entertainment from things other than books.
About the stupid title- I only put gibberish in because I got the stupid "thread has already been created" error message when I put in anything else.
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Anonymous2007-09-20 11:07 ID:Xl66kS5b
I agree my grammar in that post is truly atrocious but that is just from the simple fact that I did not give a shit because the whole topic is idiotic and properly phrasing it is just a waste of time. If you however are so concerned about then of course I shall comply and point out that your initial post has several grammatical errors at all.
So your first point is about reading fiction and escapism. "Fiction s for delusional people who'd like to escape reality by reading about people and events which don't exist and possibly pretend to be one of the characters themselves" earlier that Escapism has a multitude of forms it can take and to impinge that escapism is negative trait you would have to provide reasons for why I'll those forms are bad. Some obvious examples of escapism can include movies, TV Shows, sports, traveling to other countries. Almost any form of recreation can be in some ways escapism which makes the term very subjective.
Additionally not every fiction reader reads simply for escapism. Allegories completely defy that definition as they are meant to teach a lesson. It is simply fallacious to put every fiction story ever written under the broad category of escapism.
On to your second point, "or just do it for cheap entertainment since they have no friends to keep them company" which is a broad generalization. Personal experience from the fact that I know people who read fiction and have friends shows that your generalization is not true in all cases. Also that there are book clubs (most of which are primarily devoted to fiction) seems to invalidate a correlation between reading fiction and having no friends.
Finally just as I assume you to be American you also assume me to be a reader of fiction and assume that post to be a valid example of my writing and cognitive ability. All of these are assumptions and all have so far appeared to be incorrect.
This whole post has probably been rather pointless since you obviously posted this topic so as to get somebody perturbed at you and start an altercation. You will probably just pick out some random part of this post and then start calling me juvenile or a basement dweller instead of discussing the issue at hand (which is rather inane imo but w/e). I guess I applaud you in getting some naive fool to waste their time.