Escapism is the only good thing about being alive.
I refuse to believe normal people actually like their wage slavery lives. They like being part of the group, being accepted, being a member of the tribe. Even if most of the tribe are cunts to them and they'd rather be alone. I just don't get it, I'd rather be alone and live vicariously through escapism and do things I truly want to do in those worlds. The real world has nothing for me, I want nothing from it but to leave me alone. I truly want nothing to do with anyone or anything in real life. I'm not bitter or jealous or sad about it, I have never wanted to be part of humanity.
Your post sounds really bitter, jealous and sad though. Why not just: Visiting imaginary places is great! I haven't felt such a tremendous joy for a long time. Dunsany, I love you.
Caleb White
6ft 26
>Your post sounds really bitter, jealous and sad though. But I just told you I wasn't. If I'm anything it's confused as to why I see life one way and everyone else sees it completely differently. I've never met anyone but people online who thought what I think about life.
>Visiting imaginary places is great! I haven't felt such a tremendous joy for a long time. Dunsany, I love you. I find excessive positivity like that grating. Like a child's shrill voice or a woman screaming.
John Rogers
good, do what you want, stay disciplined, fuck the rat race, nobody gives a fuck about you or me
Isaac James
>I just don't get it, I'd rather be alone and live vicariously through escapism escapism does not actually work. all a videogame does is turn you from an unhappy person into an unhappy person pressing buttons. if escapism was actually viable then all those people would be happily locked into their videogame wonderlands instead of forming fandoms and screaming on forums and producing this whole cacophony of discontent. why would people who want to escape society form societies? because they are drawn together by the common failure of these escape attempts, looking for someone to blame, looking to rekindle the hope that the next videogame will fulfill its absurd promise and free them, finally, from themselves. look, here you are, begging a community to validate your dream of living beyond communities. something's wrong. can you feel it yet? something's not working.
Jacob Phillips
>escapism does not actually work It does in the moments you're experiencing it.
It's not just video games. It's books, anime, music, film, tv, art. It's not a one and done fix, it works when you're actively engaged with it and it doesn't when you're not.
Ayden Diaz
>Escapism is the only good thing about being alive. Only if you escape into the realm of Forms.
Julian Fisher
>why would people who want to escape society form societies? because they are drawn together by the common failure of these escape attempts
>being part of a tribe IS escapism >from yourself
Are anons posting the right conversation in the wrong order?
Escapism is common outside the nerdosphere. It's possibly itself a basic need, and if you talk to people about what they actually enjoy about e.g. repetitive gym exercises, Netflix, getting drunk and the rest of the normie menu you hear a lot about turning the brain off, getting relief, being focused on something unimportant etc. There's always a balance between the light, free, escapist element of life and the heavy as concrete shit.
OP's problem is imagining that he can let the escapist element take over the whole project, which he probably isn't financially equipped to do and certainly would have second thoughts about if he were. Only the psychotic can live entirely in the real or the imagined.
Zachary Howard
briefly forgetting about your problems because you're watching a cartoon is not escapism as discussed in this thread. escapism as practiced by current nerd culture and exemplified by op's post is not some tactic of temporary stress relief but this entire ideological commitment to building your life around the consumption of branded entertainment products in pursuit of some sort of impossible "self-actualization" fantasy like a return to the innocence of childhood or, in op's case, severance from society and immersion into a realm of complete self-reliance and total control.
so when i say escapism does not work i don't mean that clicking on a little computer guy to watch him explode into chunks of gore fails to entertain but that this larger lifestyle structure never reaches its promised target. every hyped-up release ultimately fails to sate the desire and has to be replaced by the next one, and all that this endless process seems to produce in the audience is profound unhappiness that paradoxically grows when they get what they want and fades when it is kept out of their reach so that the most enjoyed aspect of a nerd culture product is now its advertising. were it that all these no man's skies and game of thrones series finales could remain trailers and never materialize, one could then simply glide on the waves of hype forever without that dreadful moment of post-ejaculatory clarity when you realize all you got is a software toy where you click on crystals or a soap opera with dragons and now you have to find the next target that will focus your absurd desire to cease to be yourself.
Christian Parker
You're literally describing the wagie life NEET's attempt to escape idiot
Blake Murphy
Wh4t g4m3?
Dylan Nelson
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Xavier Evans
Is hiking is escapism?
Noah Gomez
What then is not escapism, only things like eating, working and sleeping? If playing a board game with friends is escapism and watching a movie is escapism and writing music is escapism, what isn't escapism?
Parker Kelly
I think stress-relief is the right expression though. You keep describing this desire for videogames to produce a moment of total realisation by proxy. I don't think this is what they offer to anybody. What they offer is pain relief.
i.e. where a well adjusted person accepts a life of considerable stress and tries to medicate it with small amounts of anti-stress, OP tries to flip the dosages and achieve zero-stress.
Ryan Thompson
people always toss around words they don't even know the definition to... You don't even know what fucking escapism means. >wage slavery how is this not complete escapism? Working for a simulated and illusory currency? >They like being part of the group, being accepted, being a member of the tribe. groups are illusory concepts we created that don't even exist. That too is escapism. >real life yeah, unlike "fake life" lol. Illusions are real.
You only think that your life isn't "real" because it hasn't been validated as "real". Newsflash: the more advanced an illusion is, the less parseable it is as an illusion. Your illusion; escape, is just less complex.
You escape in a different way, into illusions that aren't as popular or validated as those in what you call the "real world" are. That aren't as complex. Because they aren't as validated, you need to come down here into fucking Yea Forums, quite possibly the most pseudo-intellectual board on this website, and cry to them for validation to make your dull escape seem "cool". To elevate it above the "real world". To justify your cowardice! You only hold back from entering the "real world" out of fear that when you fail in this completely validated world, you will actually fail FOR REAL! But you can't feel like a coward while cowering away from it, you have to escape that feeling too. So you try to justify yourself by diverging yourself completely from it, even though you are the one contained inside the world's illusion (you are just a very small part of it), which you already know! So you end up saying shit like "The real world has nothing for me, I want nothing from it but to leave me alone", begging this validated "real" to let you free, while trying to completely disconnect from it (" I truly want nothing to do with anyone or anything in real life") to escape the patheticism of your small and dull escapism. Let me tell you: your escapism isn't working.
Aiden Scott
this whole escapism phenomenon operates on at least three distinct levels: A, videogame playing etc as a stress relief activity; B, the false belief that it will save you; C, the ideology that emerges where believers in B interface with entertainment industries that are rapidly converting from commercial exploitation of A to commercial exploitation of B, and the mystifications that both employ for the continued maintenance of B for mutual benefit despite its obvious falsity.
op has already started the conversation at B, i'm trying to take it to C but you still can't see anything past A. you need to up your game.
Caleb Edwards
Chrono Cross
John Thompson
You can't be absorbed in escapism with other people around you queer. And only comsuming media is escapism, not creating it.
Michael Martin
>DEFINE THE WORD DEFINE No one likes you, fuck off
Samuel Nguyen
Video games are fun gaylord, there's no "save me" aspect to it at all retard. You're arguing against shit no one even said.
Landon Hill
>tribe
Kayden Lopez
Based Chrono Cross poster
Mason Green
>mfw my form of escapism is the accumulation of knowledge from multiple mediums Who else?
Suicide is the answer is basically what this post says.
Isaac Roberts
Peak wisdom.
Joseph Turner
i mean if life is unimaginable to you without total devotion to children's entertainment brands then sure
Leo Powell
Hey bro, guess what? You're not special. You're not superiour to "normal" people. You're not above basic human desires and needs. You're just a fucking loser who's in denial. Keep telling yourself you're fine with playing vidya all day and never experiencing anything of value. Tell me about how great that lifestyle is in 10 years, when you're still at the same point in your life, while I'll be retired and on a boat, bought from my "wagecuck" money, with my beautiful wife Heidi licking caviar off my balls.
Logan Gonzalez
I would like real life more if I had a gf/wife (and access to her pusy). I'm self-employed though so it's not too bad. I've been playing a lot of vidya lately as well. Nothing to do at home but read and vidya. Absolutely 0 social interactions outside of work and family.
Jack Wood
Not caring about social standards and just accumulating information is what i do. luckily here everyone gets social welfare so it's just fine. i do get sad but i'm always miserable somehow anyways
