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"Life sucks because we indulge in fiction too much"

SchitzoSchitzo
edited 2011-08-31 14:27:37 in General
They're somethin' else.
Oh, no fucking way? So you're saying we're all a whining sobbing wreck, be it student, white collar worker or family man because we were raised tv shows and superhero comics where good always triumphs? Where The good guy always gets the girl? Where ANYONE can be a master of anything with a (MOSTLY OFFSCREEN. YOU FORGOT OFFSCREEN, YOU FUCKBEND) strenuous training montage set to music?

Yeah, not buying it. It sounds like too much of a copout.
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  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    Let me guess: a cynic that thinks negativity is more "realistic".

    Aside from that, people attribute societal issues to fictional media far too much. For one thing, fictional media is as much a reflection of societal issues in the first place.

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    > David Wong.

    There's your problem.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Sometimes, I wonder if the Cracked guy is actually the same person who wrote John Dies at the End.
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.
    I think people look at this kind of thing the wrong way. It's not "fiction ruins things", but "fiction can fill a personal void". So you have to examine exactly what fiction fills which voids and how it does that to find the root of the issue. Condemning fiction glosses over the real issues at hand and is an easy back door for those who don't understand.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss
    So what void does Bayformers fill? (I bring this up because people have used that as an excuse to be pretentious many times here)
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    I don't know, John Dies At The End had some white middle-class First-World depressive pseudo-existentialist philosophizing too.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Yeah, but it was a lot better than his online stuff.
  • MyrmidonMyrmidon
    Maybe fame got to him. Or he had an editor.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    The Bayformers are the only high budget, live-action, giant robot film with huge explosions and cool transformations.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    ^^I kind of want the former to be the explanation, but it's probably the latter :P
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    The Bayformers are the only high budget, live-action, giant robot film with huge explosions and cool transformations.

    If you hadn't said live action, I would have said Lagann. 

    Oh well.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    I'm perfectly aware that fiction is just that, fiction. And what is it about life that I'm pissed off? That things beyond my control are as fucked up as they are. That we as a species really should know better. and that, once again, it's all beyond my control (at the moment). I think whether or not I've watched too much Gurren Lagann should have nothing to do with this. I'd be pissed off at this regardless.

    In the end, it's all meager anyway. On with life, you know?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    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.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    "That things beyond my control are as fucked up as they are. That we as a species really should know better. and that, once again, it's all beyond my control (at the moment)."

    That is as much a motivation for producing fiction than consuming fiction, if not more so.

  • DonZabuDonZabu
    >For one thing, fictional media is as much a reflection of societal issues in the first place.

    QFT
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    While I agree with the things both of you say A LOT, I tend to shy away from those kinds of mini-speeches due to the rude and cocky-sounding tone of them. Words like "stop whining", etc.
  • RedEyedAbyssRedEyedAbyss

    I believe that tends to refer to unproductive whining most of the time.

    "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."

    Hmm...interesting. I for one seem to instinctively have selection bias for the inverse, so what kind of mindset would that be?

  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    edited 2011-08-31 15:06:26
    You can change. You can.
    Harshness never killed nobody.

    Notice the operative word there. It hurts, it annoys, it bothers. But it never kills. It never finishes things. There's nothing wrong with some well placed harshness, in my findings.

    ^Optimism. Appreciating the little things as much as the big things. spending one hour with someone you like, a good joke, that sorta deal.
  • ViviVivi
    edited 2011-08-31 15:06:54
    $80+ per session
    Just because something doesn't kill someone doesn't mean I have to be okay with it.

    And harshness can definitely finish things.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    --shrug-- as you wish. 

    your disapproval doesn't bother me, though.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    I'm a little bothered that you would think you have to tell me you aren't bothered.
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    Could not have said it better, Juan.
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    Eh, maybe you could have.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    In any case, I have to compare David Wong to another Cracked columnist, John Cheese. By all accounts, John Cheese has had a much, much worse lot in life than David Wong has, and yet his outlook is that much more positive.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Eh, maybe you could have.

    Not all of us feel the same way you do, yannow?
  • ViviVivi
    $80+ per session
    That goes without saying, with all things. I shouldn't have to stamp YMMV on my post.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    WELP, MAYBE YOU SHOULD >:(
  • VorpyVorpy
    ☭Unstoppable Sex Goddess☭
    >Looking for something to greentext as an easy answer to simple problem

    >Can't find anything to imply as the easy answer

    >Post anyway
  • SchitzoSchitzo
    They're somethin' else.
    I assume I'll like John Cheese's writing a bit better?

    ... John Cheese isn't the same John from John Dies at the End, is he?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    Not that I know of, no.

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