By the way this is what happens when you listen to David Bowie in the shower.
If you took something like D&D and played with others by creating your own world and rules then I think its possible. Take music, if you take the nuggets and kindle your own flame then even if it was propaganda you learned to escape.
Escapism is just distracting yourself from life and worries, so yes, it can. I can read a book or listen to a song and become untethered from this world and part of a new one that only exists for me.
Someone to save us, someone to follow
Someone to shame us, some brave Apollo
Someone to fool us, someone like you?Please, don’t stake our lives on a Saviour Machine.
ok, I’ll stop, but was either guess the particular Bowie that triggered the thought?
Now she walks through her sunken dream
To the seats with the clearest view
And she’s hooked to the silver screen
But the film is A sadd’ning bore
For she’s lived it ten times or moreI mean he really wanted us to question our entertainment and what we felt was normal and embrace the odd.
Bowie has an amazing discography.
Tell that to my box of coconut cookies, my belly and The Office.
Cookies, agreed but only in that good food can make all problems seem less present but I wouldn’t think the office would feel like an escape to me.
Fair! I wonder if it also has to do with what you compare with. Some segments, elements, in The Office make me completely disappear mentally. They make me forget my mental illness, those aspects of my life that feel miserable. On the contrary, watching for instance true crime (if that even is entertainment?) pulls me even further down. I can’t enjoy it, because for me, it just amplifies the horrors of life. And when it comes to music, I mostly enjoy listening to genres and lyrics that don’t obviously reflect life: Blind Guardian, Kraftwerk, Perturbator, Eluveitie, Rhapsody, Aimer.
No, because Capitalism commodifies desire, including the desire to escape, the means to escape, and the action of escaping.
I realize this is presented as a showerthought, but it is actually related to a very serious philosophical topic regarding how modern capitalism has captured the minds and souls of mankind.
Some interesting reading on the subject:
Deterritorialized Desire: Capitalism and Resistance
The seminal work on this topic:
Who says shower thoughts are only whimsy?
The void calls in beating of the water and fog of heat to find the greatest questions we have ever faced.
Like seriously why do shower curtains want to hug us so badly while we are in there?!
Literally a physics question without a true answer still.Thanks for the reading.
After about 10 minutes of pondering, I have a lot of responses to this question. But no answers.
Right? Im glad i am somewhere that i am not paying the water bill.
I suppose it depends on how complete your personal need for escape is. Sometimes, merely a different role in a less obviously toxic universe is sufficient, or maybe being faced with truly existential threats that you can be confident will be overcome within the timeframe of the work you’re escaping into.
So not escape but just a belief that things can be different.
It seems some of us also need to imagine such a different reality from ours to even be able to believe the change as possible. Is it not a bit tragic to think we would need nukes / magic / aliens in order for us to believe humanity to finally be slightl ly different? Like even at such extremes we expect humanity to still act the same.
See, or perhaps that is just our current bias from our current society corrupting our imagination. A failure to see something truly different since we would fail to relate.
We are led like cattle.
My response: be the weirdest cattle they had to try to lead
