The argument is fun, but I’m not sure how well it pans out. Most fans of anything probably don’t end up amounting to much. Competent SF fans won’t end up piloting spaceships, but they may end up with a career at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab.
The general good point is that being an espionage geek will get you obsessed over history, politics, psychology and linguistics trivia, which is all applicable in many real life areas, while getting immersed in fantasy fiction has you learning lots of stuff that doesn’t tie into the real world in any particular way.
The James Bond fiction isn’t really about improvement though, Bond is just another face in the long lineage of pulp fiction competent men, who already are implausibly good at everything when the story starts.
The argument is fun, but I’m not sure how well it pans out. Most fans of anything probably don’t end up amounting to much. Competent SF fans won’t end up piloting spaceships, but they may end up with a career at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab.
The general good point is that being an espionage geek will get you obsessed over history, politics, psychology and linguistics trivia, which is all applicable in many real life areas, while getting immersed in fantasy fiction has you learning lots of stuff that doesn’t tie into the real world in any particular way.
The James Bond fiction isn’t really about improvement though, Bond is just another face in the long lineage of pulp fiction competent men, who already are implausibly good at everything when the story starts.