>>46794518Maybe not intelligence-wise, but more in the sense that they're minds capable of entertainment and storytelling at a level I strive to achieve. Minds I admire, rather. Growing up and even now, I've seen this divide between peers and heroes, and myself. I just can't believe some of the shit they're willing to run with. More and more lately, media and culture (tilted in an undoubtedly biased manner) sweep more and more of them under sensationalist movements and shitty narratives I wholeheartedly disagree with. To each their own though, I guess, I can always find common ground with them in the beauty of a good story. Or I can, at least, until politics shit starts leaking into their works. I absolutely despise it when that happens, and it's starting to happen more and more as of late.
Why can't fiction be a refuge from all the fucking agendas and misinformation flying around, in the real world? It's almost fascinating, how we've gotten to the point where we've gotten, where we're willing to die on these hills and base out our entire identity on political opinion. I can't even say the world's going crazy or some honkpill shit either, because for all I know I'm the same fucking thing, but on the other side of a coin. It feels like a fucking disease is taking root at the heart of our society, and thanks to the internet and the breakneck-spread of ideas, the world at large. I don't know, I'm just rambling at this stage.
Why can't we go back to simpler times, like 2009? Or to a more innocent place, like the Pokemon world?
