Is escapism a problem that needs to be fixed?

Is escapism a problem that needs to be fixed?

If it is not, why?
If it is, why and how?

It's a symptom. Vidyas are more fun than real life can be for many. They're losing a sense of control over their own life. They can't affect it meaningfully. They're losing hope for the future. Supposedly people felt very much like this in the final days of the USSR.

I agree that escapism isn't a problem, but a symptom.
Have you figured out what you're escaping from?

Should something be done? Or is it just part of an inevitable cycle?

yeah. its the reason why whites arent fighting the jews who are genociding us off. we're all drunk or stoned. god damnit!

Based Aguirre

I just hate my pointless job and I can't get a better one. So I just zone out during the day and then I just want to do stuff that interests me before I have to sleep.
I think the shitty job market has a lot to do with it. And expensive housing. It literally traps people.

Idk I know a lot of people with wealthy parents that still absorb themselves in fiction and/or substances

What would you considor a better job. One that pays more, or one that you enjoy more.

I may be biased since I grew up in a rural area, but cities and towns are fucking boring and I don't know how anyone who isn't rich enough to go out to eat every night does anything besides piss their life away playing video games or whatever to take their mind off of how soul crushing their surroundings are. I just bought a house out in the country and am living in the country for the first time in a decade. My vidya time has plummeted because there is always meaningful work to do and I've never been happier

Escapism is the only reason I haven't killed myself yet.

Yeah. Just make fucking examples of a bunch of them. Their precious safe distractions that make them feel special and forget the outside world won't help forgetting jack shit when it reminds them of the news that they're too puny to stomach, they won't be so special when everyone hears about their kind getting literally BTFO!

this world is fucking shit lad
and the prospects are shit

I guess I agree
I don't think I understand this

I love that animal

More money might help me get a better job or move, but that's not the issue by itself. A job that I don't loathe as much would be nice. I wouldn't mind some physical labor job where I could zone out almost 100% kek. Right now I can't, I have to deal with people all the time. And I'm lucky to even have that though.
I know I'm not the only one who hates his job. This is terribly common. Maybe more small businesses and self-employment would help. And some kind of negative income tax scheme to replace welfare could help with that. Right now it's WAY too risky for a lot of people to try to change their circumstances.

They're cowardly pieces of shit, just like fags. Putting the boot in against celebrations of being cowardly pieces of shit will fuck up how exercising cowardly shiftiness from being sugarcoated.

They've ALREADY done this pre-emptively by abandoning arcades, with people knowing full well that they'd get taught brutal lessons at the most obvious bases of their depravity.

Escapism is part of a bigger problem. It also takes many forms.
People use drugs,alchohol, vidya etc as forms of escapism.
The reason or thing people are escaping from is an individual problem. Although many people may share the same reasons or things they are escaping from.

You can't fix escapism without finding out and understanding what you're even escaping from.

Shut the f****** you f****** f***** cheeky conch I'm sick of snarky little jerks like you typing these trite and smart ass responses when you know damn well what they were talking about haha anyways I'm so tired I've been up for 3 days I'm using voice to text on my cell phone because I can't type straight but a what's up I love browsing pole before sleeping haha F*** are you talking about curse picture and are you judaism or something I'm not your maid you need to backup I'm seriously losing the bearings on reality and death huh LOL this is so weird but eat but the grip is slipping and the prophecy will soon be overridden whilst one group has power via dominance the other has power via deceit name these two groups they have a lot in common but hate each other anyways I hate myself too and I am got to go

>You can't fix escapism without finding out and understanding what you're even escaping from
Good point. Hmm.
>cowardly pieces of shit, just like fags
What do you think escapists are afraid of? Also, what do you think gays are afraid of?

The job isn't the issue, the concept of working might be the problem. Zoning out to make it end faster and get the fuck out of there is common.
A repetitive job that allows you to go into zombie-autopilot mode to make time go faster is helpful, but you will still struggle mentally to force yourself to go everyday.

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If your method of escapism is causing a problem you can make an effort to adopt a new outlet.

When I quit alchohol, which was having a negative impact on my life, I switched to vidya.

My situation improved, but the need to escape didn't go away.

Yeah, I've been there. I alternate between anime, vidya, and image boarding as my escape. I've been mostly free of substances for a few years now

It's not like it's an old concept and just like poverty and drugs, we'll win the war on them any day now.

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They're afraid of everything. Afraid of seeing their world and their place in it, afraid of thinking, afraid of challenges, afraid of real issues, that's why these things offer them the experience of being someone else in another world, why they become ever more mindless, become easier to the point of being silly and constantly more disconnected from any concrete things and from any real entities or concepts.

>They're afraid of everything. Afraid of seeing their world and their place in it, afraid of thinking, afraid of challenges, afraid of real issues
Hmm. I can see that. I can sympathize with that problem though; life really is terrible. Of course, you're free to have whatever opinion you want about them, but there really isn't much they can do about it besides continue their path, die, or "toughen up" (which doesn't happen for like 95% of people)

Sympathy is a crippling cancer. Making examples of them would get shit done, big time. Orlando ended getting all those fags' heads back on straight.

>Orlando ended getting all those fags' heads back on straight.
No it didn't. Nobody has been scared back into the closet or anything. That's why there are still so many gays in the Middle East, even though they can get beheaded for it. Also on your earlier point, arcades died because of the increasing popularity of the home console, not because of societal stigma. More people play video games than ever

Anyone else dream about all the time you've wasted almost every night and wake up every day with this super deep sadness?

I didn't say it actually straightened fags, it got a bunch of delusions out of their heads, at least for purposes of waving their progressiveness in everyone's faces, it forced them to vaguely act normal, of course it's still massively far away from them achieving straightness, that's way too hard and indeed we should give up on it.

LAN parties died too, gamers know they're so despicable, they must not gather out in the open shamelessly or they'll get vtec'd.

What's stopping people from just mixing together alcohol and games? It's even an extra challenge that way!

There are still countless pride parades where people flaunt flamboyant, perverseneas. I don't care about anyone's orientation, mind you, but I think overt sexuality is inappropriate for the public.

LAN parties are definitely not dead. They're less popular now due to the internet, but even my college (which is a party college full of mainstream normies) has at least 3 different videogame clubs with a fairly large and active membership

Escapism is pretty much the only thing keeping us away from a Mad Max style "everyone just gives up on society and becomes lawless murderers" style of apocalypse.

Escapism is a symptom, not a cause.

Ahhh, but no one actually mowed down a genuine pride parade yet! Although the direct deterrent against those is inevitable, it's unbelievable and even inconceivable to ordinary people.

Hmmm, yeah, I guess I am in the wrong here. About twofold even. Gamers are known to have their place established on the giving end of massacres - Cho, both the modern prominent Germans, however many others. I'd guess that gives gamers a feeling of security at gatherings.