It could be that, like sleep, the benefits of reading fiction aren’t obvious and aren’t on the surface. IOW, escapism might be like dreaming—a waste from one point of view (time spent) but still something without which we couldn’t function properly, so therefore not a waste, but a necessary part of maintenance, or summat.
It could be that, like sleep, the benefits of reading fiction aren’t obvious and aren’t on the surface. IOW, escapism might be like dreaming—a waste from one point of view (time spent) but still something without which we couldn’t function properly, so therefore not a waste, but a necessary part of maintenance, or summat.
Yeah, I’d be very interested in evidence concerning these things.