i have this theory that to engage in media you have to confer some sort of micro psychosis, where the world and characters literally become real in your mind in a subconscious way, thats why fans get so sad when their favorite character dies, to them that character was a real person even though they never actually met them, in the same way a celebrity is real even though youve only seen them on tv

i think thats also why the rise in escapism is so concerning, its not just a simple pastime, its quite literally a psychotic behavior, the schizophrenic will detach from reality and further engage in an increasingly unreal world, like the escapist

see in the past knowledge of the real world was very important, if the weather was gonna be bad you could lose your crops and your food for the season, if the king was going crazy you needed to know so you could prepare, these days anything can happen "out there" and it doesnt change anything, even something as massive as the seasons changing has no impact on our day to day routine, the world we live in is not real, its a fantasy, an escape,

and the thing is the world we engage is not our own worlds, no they are the worlds of the elite, they chose what we consume, what we can see and do and hear and play, not us, and yet to us this world is as real as the outside world, by engaging in these world we accept the brainwashing from the elites, i mean imagine of you had the power to implant fictional worlds and characters into someones mind, imagine the possibilities, you could make them do anything

and the worst part is that people dont even recognize this, even though both the right and the left have a conception of a controlling deep state/elite/rich etc, they think they can overcome it by voting for the opposite party or doing activism or posting shit on social media when all that does is NOTHING, it does nothing at all, the elite have already set out your options and made sure that none of those options will change anything, like in iran how people vote for the president but each presidential candidate has to be chosen by the ayatollah, and the ayatollah cant be voted for, so its like a de facto totalitarian rule