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.
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.