Escapism: C or D?

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What is this escape? The word is poorly chosen to please. Courage consists, however, in agreeing to flee rather than live tranquilly and hypocritically in false refuges. Values, morals, homelands, religions, and these private certitudes that our vanity and our complacency bestow generously on us, have as many deceptive sojourns as the world arranges for those who think they are standing straight and at ease, among stable things.

― Moe Blanchot, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:16 (twenty years ago)

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:19 (twenty years ago)

Erm, I wouldn't be alive if it wasn't for escapism.

― Alec Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

(I mean, obviously it's a classic. I've thought about starting a thread like this many times, but it would be more a "Defend the Indefensible: Escapsim" rather than a classic or dud.)

― Alec Tea-Skirt (kate), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:21 (twenty years ago)

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― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 5 August 2005 15:22 (twenty years ago)

I would be a broken person without it, I think. Still alive, but very different. Although without escapist value, I might have read something OTHER THAN sci-fi/fantasy before age 24.

― Laurel, Friday, 5 August 2005 15:35 (twenty years ago)

Classic! Though, I guess eventually I'll become a recluse.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 5 August 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

escapism is not the same as social daydreaming, that is used to construct a vision of the future, then through organized,engaged actions, used to construct the future.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

I've just been trying to avoid escapism these days.

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:33 (twenty years ago)

how do you escape escapism?!! NO!!!!!!!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:43 (twenty years ago)

Escapism, as Moe intimates, is Boo-Shit. Most peoples' problems better solved by grovelling properly into Ver Real.

― Anti-Pope Consortium (noodle vague), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

Sébastien, is there any crime in using escapism for things like the weather, or the inevitability of ageing, or disease beyond our present and foreseeable ability to cure it?

― M. White (Miguelito), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

Escapism pretty genius because you can snap in and out of it at any time.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 5 August 2005 17:54 (twenty years ago)

Sébastien, is there any crime in using escapism for things like the weather, or the inevitability of ageing, or disease beyond our present and foreseeable ability to cure it?

I think a better concept to deal with those things is apatheia (apathy, or detachment): not seek to extinguish emotions, only to avoid emotional troubles by developing clear judgement, because escapism is philosophical duck tape, it doesn't fix anything; the getting away from/ getting back to one's empoisoned condition brings a dichotomy of self that is avoidable, and if one tries to "never come back", like, living in denial, especially if the mental escapades piles up in different areas of one's life, it can equal living as a quixotesque character, attracting tragicomic situations. like, one would daydream of calm weather when vis car is in the eye of a tornado etc The only crime I could see in all this would be not to live as good as one could,

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 5 August 2005 21:16 (twenty years ago)

as WELL as one could!

― richardk (Richard K), Friday, 5 August 2005 23:11 (twenty years ago)

Am I the only one who doesn't understand what the question is? Is this Moe person taking the piss, or are they a monumentul ponce?

― chap who would dare to thwart the revolution (chap), Saturday, 6 August 2005 03:14 (twenty years ago)

Escapism? What's that?

― Land Ho (dymaxia), Saturday, 6 August 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

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