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Originally Posted by Alphapheemail
Of course! Awesome insight! So then thinking about it, wouldn't that mean that escapisim is associated with the evolution of the higher consiouness, highly tied in with the evolution of man. Early religion a form of this? Makes sense, especially if early story telling was about sun worship or tales on the moon. Oh boy! I had no idea where my question would lead!
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Well, if we start speculating on the origins or religion, this thread is going to get very, very off track... not to mention, discussions like that can have a habit of getting ugly.
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But isn't that somewhat the other way around, we as individuals define what form of entertainment we choose. As kids we try everything in order to find out what we like and dislike.
For example; I love anything scifi and hate any thing "Nora Roberts" like. But even though my environment was very pro "Roberts", I was reading mysteries and scifi. I defined my hobbies according to me.
It's a mesh of both views. But that's how it seems to be in this thread. Everyone is absolutely right! I love it!
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I think it is a little more complicated than that... yes we choose both our methods of entertainment and, if fiction is involved, its genre. But at the same time, we tend to only choose from what is offered to us. Like you, I read tons of Science Fiction.. and I don't come from a background that would make that choice very likely... but I did watch Star Trek, Star Wars and the original Battlestar Galactica when I was young... those made a huge impact on me. I wasn't much of a reader then, but when I was 13 and had to do weekly book reports, I went the library and found Asimov's Foundation Trilogy.. and after reading about a grand but declining empire.. and the rise of a new civilization I was hooked. If I had never seen Star Wars or Star Trek, who knows.
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Bill