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"Life sucks because we indulge in fiction too much"

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  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Didn't cracked say in an article that the happiest country in the world is also one of the poorest?
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    First thing to consider with any such label: what parameters are used to measure "happiness"?
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    >>Using Cracked as a source.


  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    I think this article may be looking at it backwards.

    It's not "Life sucks because we indulge in fiction", it's "We indulge in fiction because life sucks".

    That may be wrong too though.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    @Cygan. Not according to my Film Professor Mc.Person.

    People in the great depression a long time ago, they went to movies.

    Why?

    Cause movies rock.

    True fax.
  • MalkavianMalkavian
    MORONS! I'VE GOT MORONS ON MY PAYROLL!
    ^^Right, though I think that people only seek fiction to plug holes in their heart is a rather simplistic way of looking at it.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    There are importantly lessons to be learned from fiction though.
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.
    Yeah, there is definitely more than one reason people read fiction. That is just one simple reason out of several.
  • LouieWLouieW
    edited 2011-08-31 22:49:47
    Loser
    I definitely agree with the idea that people's preconceived notions of how things will be often cause problems. I also think that sometimes people are in bad situations and working as hard as they can will not get them from point A to point B where there would like to be.

    Still, I believe that hard work and practice really do work and if you are going to count on something in life, it makes more sense to focus on them than luck or the like. While I can get behind the idea that fiction causes some of the problems with expectations, I do not think it is solely to blame.

    Also, I think that fiction has the ability to inspire as well. Maybe some people watch things like the training montages in Karate Kid and use them to get pumped up to practice as well.

    Juan_carlos,
    All I have to say is this

    Life sucks. But guess what? That ain't gonna change soon. So, the only thing you can do is either quit or keep on living. Quitting involves missing all the good things you can get out of life. Staying involves dealing with all the bad things that life can give you. And at the end of the day, every good thing counts 100 more times than any of the bad things in you have the right mind set.

    So, stop whining, as there's no point to it. And start living, as there's something worthwhile on it.

    I am not going to totally disagree with the idea that plenty of things in life can really stink, but I am not sure I agree about life in general being bad. From what I can tell, life is just a blank canvas. What ends up being on that canvas depends on what you do, what others around you do, and what you are given by fate/luck/or whatever else (I suppose this is where religious people who mention a deity).

    As for cynicism, it tends to bug me, especially when it comes in the form of "I have lost faith in humanity." Most of the time, it just seems like giving up to me or appears to be way too selective. Sure, there may be plenty of tragedies and horrible things in life, but there are people working to make positive differences however small. I think ignoring those people and their actions is pretty silly, not to mention a bad way of encouraging them.
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    "So what void does Bayformers fill?"

    The "watch shit blow up" void.

    Also:

    Life does not suck because of fiction. Fiction exists because life sucks.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Life does not have to suck for great pieces of fiction to be made.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Best pieces of fiction ever written were written by men during depression and under duress, trufax
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    @Juan_Carlos.

    Doctor Who?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Trufax is Internet speak for "Not true at all"
  • ChagenChagen
    [tɕagɛn]
    No, what I meant was that we make fiction because life isn't very interesting to most people.
  • CounterclockCounterclock
    Belief
    Not necessarily, after all, some fiction can be seen as a sort of message right?

    So the perimeters of expressing feelings and ideals into a great piece of fiction is independent of the thought that Life is uninteresting in order for fiction to exist.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    After all, even the highest of fantasy and most bizarre science fiction seeks to abstract mundane concepts through narrative.
  • InsanityAddictInsanityAddict
    Diet NEET

    It always comes of as a tad arrogant, this sort of writing, with the author as the lone exception to the inability of his fellow men to distinguish fiction and reality adequately.

  • captainbrasscaptainbrass

    I think he has a fair point about people expecting things to be easier than they actually are because that's a big theme in life. I don't think it's due to fiction though, more human nature. The Americans in Iraq are only the latest of a string of armies to go into battle hoping for a "short, victorious war" and I don't think that was because George Bush and Dick Cheney had been watching The Karate Kid. 

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