My Suspension of Disbelief is completely gone...

TheRabid · 2019-04-11T18:20:07+00:00

I like the fantasy as long as you realize that it’s all a fantasy and you don’t live there.

Docbear64 · 2019-04-11T19:05:26+00:00

That's a shame I don't know what I'd do if I couldn't find pleasure in some form of escapism but for what it's worth much of our media is based on history , perhaps your focus on fiction can be filled with a new found love for researching actual historical events?

History is every bit as dramatic ( if not much slower typically) then your favorite media. Real betrayals, real evil rulers, assassinations, wars, victories, golden ages, and actual heroes.

Just a thought I hope whatever you find manages to satisfy you .

DWShimoda · 2019-04-11T20:22:01+00:00

Similar here... but yet not entirely the same as you.

I guess in part because I always had a preference for "hard" sci-fi and what I think of as "relatively realistic" fiction/fantasy.

I still find Tolkien's works to be rather enjoyable -- and the parts that sometimes SEEM to be rather "exaggerated/hyperbole" things (ridiculously grandiose buildings, cities, etc); are really not necessarily all that absurd (Cf the whole Athenian Acropolis, not to mention Pyramids and a whole host of other ancient structures {or at least ruins of such}, etc... -- as well as frankly many "almost modern" buildings still in use {US Capital, White House, etc} -- all actually built with simple "manpower" {plus animal, actual "horse" power, etc} and no modern "power tools"; to be sure they took years, even decades to build, but just as "Rome wasn't built in a day", neither does Tolkien claim that Gondolin or Minas Tirith were built "in a day" either.)

Other things too... C.S. Forester's "Hornblower" series for example (and then especially when you add on C. Northcote Parkinsons "faux-biography") -- to be sure, a bit "absurd" as having it all conveniently happening (ala Forrest Gump) vis a vis on the margin of notable historical events -- yet at the same time not so "implausible" after all (the life of "Sir" Edmund Pellew -- aka Viscount Exmouth -- was actually rather MORE dramatic than the fictional "Hornblower").

And when it comes to sci-fi; I actually enjoy the "retro" outlook on life that the early Heinlein (especially the young adult "space cadet" books), and various AC Clarke "space" novels (i.e. "Sands of Mars") contain -- even though our knowledge of things HAS "obsoleted" them, they are still somewhat entertaining -- at least in a sort of "nostalgic" way.

With ALL "fiction" -- of whatever genre -- you have to be willing to engage in at least SOME degree of "willing suspension of disbelief"...

And frankly, much the same applies when it comes to reading anything that is (at least ostensibly) "non-fiction" -- that is actual "history" or "biographies" -- because in many ways those very likely contain an awful lot of rather-dubious (at best) "filler" stuff, at the very least a "glossing over" (skipping or cleaning up if not "polishing" and exaggerating in a wholly fictional-idealistic manner) a lot of what probably ACTUALLY happened...

Not the least of which are** the mundane/banal (but very REAL) aspects of daily life** (most authors, in most works -- fictional or biographical -- NEVER mention someone heading off to the loo or the bushes, to take a quick leak or an ignominious crap, even though rather obviously everyone does so -- pretty much HAS to do so -- probably at least once a day {not to mention that, at least outside of porn/slash stuff, apparently NO ONE ever masturbates!}... we just DON'T "talk about that" {and reading about it, in most works, would SEEM ridiculous; even if it were "realistic"}).

oliver_21 · 2019-04-12T02:21:54+00:00

It really comes down to this. Is it better to see through the blatant propaganda or be ignorant and in bliss?

I prefer to see the bullshit straight away. It's a lonely road and if you're lucky you can have maybe one friend see through it with you.

Give me truth all day.

Fleeb4MrZurkon · 2019-04-11T17:51:22+00:00

Same

Tundrac · 2019-04-11T18:15:09+00:00

Uhh, isn’t that completely normal?

2019-04-11T18:47:32+00:00

I havent watched a single movie since I discovered mgtow one year ago.

2019-04-11T19:43:27+00:00

That sucks. Check out Berserk manga and get back to me.

hunchobigbag · 2019-04-11T23:15:09+00:00

I'm in a similar position but what helps me is that I try to pay attention to the rules of that specific universe and if the logic sticks then I can suspend my disbelief.

Lawuhiku · 2019-04-11T23:46:49+00:00

"When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things." - Corinthians 13 Verse 11

If you are going to take this quote seriously, you probably should put away the book written to scare kids into plantation where they are supposed to marry "virgin" wife, have 3 kids and and live with her till he dies, while simultaneuously abusing your own kids, by shoving same bullshit down their throats so more irrecoverably damaged men can join this misery. TL;DR religion bad.

KikeTownSyndromeA · 2019-04-12T04:00:39+00:00

No. you obviously have literal Dopamine attention deprivation and need your appreciation neurons fucking rewired. you sound like someone who needs to put down the porn and intoxication for a while

Title	My Suspension of Disbelief is completely gone...
Author	Passione_Kai
Upvotes	15
Comments	13
Date	April 11, 2019 5:25 PM UTC (7 years ago)
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Similar here... but yet not entirely the same as you.