The âsourcesâ arenât even worth a response; the human brainâs ability to attribute feeling or associations to words is an obvious one, which stems back to ancient times in absolute clarity, because - without this emotional reaction - art in any/all forms would be destroyed overnight. The article isnât âfiction influences realityâ, but âfiction influences out emotionâ âŠÂ
It means that reading âRomeo and Julietâ may have me on the verge of tears, but it doesnât mean that Iâm going to go out and commit a double-suicide because I read the play ⊠newspapers, documentaries, and letters from loved ones could evoke the same emotions ⊠ban those, too?
The latter is too much for me to dissect right now âŠÂ
Iâll simply say that fiction can - and should - be totally free and the artist free to explore any theme as they see fit âŠÂ âLolitaâ to âThe Colour Purpleâ to âRomeo and Julietâ all discuss problematic things, some even romanticise them, and yet we donât ban these books, because they provoke discussion and have literary merit. On the flipside, tawdry âMills and Boonsâ novels to hardcore porn DVDs are also allowed, because they entertain and provide a release.
It doesnât matter whether itâs porn or gorn ⊠for kids or for adults ⊠poetry or fine-art or literary classics ⊠what we read does not impact our actions, insofar as a direct cause and not a correlation. The actual studies on this are vague at best, biased at worst, and debated in most psychology classes ⊠so far people are unanimous: fiction does not impact reality.
A good book -? It can make you think. It can make you reassess your behaviour. It can horrify you. It can arouse you. It can spark a lifetime of research. These are all emotion based ⊠the book has engaged you on a mental level, making you think about your behaviour and personality, and - well - maybe this is what scares you ⊠not âcopyingâ the behaviour âŠ
@antielricest - what is it that scares you?
I have never once - in all my years of studying Literature - served someone I hate the flesh of her children in a stew, or demanded someone serve me a pound of flesh to even a debt, or poisoned a sword in hopes of killing my nephew ⊠Iâve never slept with my sister and then paraded the aborted foetus around on a stick, just like Iâve never stabbed my cousin to death to inherit from him ⊠these are all stories - mostly Shakespeare - from the same two cenuries a long time ago. Still taught in schools. All taught in schools.
If you think someone is going to copy fiction -?
Get them help. They clearly need it.
Not in a derogatory way, but in an actual âsomething deeper is at play hereâ, because people donât act out fantasies or fiction because âitâs coolâ or âitâs hotâ or âso-and-so did itâ ⊠people who act out fiction wither wanted to/were going to do it anyway or they were deeply disturbed people with an underlying illness. People do not copy fiction as a rule.Â
Do you honestly think between cave-paintings on a wall and being able to buy âHannibalâ on DVD, that not one person noticed âpeople are copying from fictionâ and - you know - banned stories and art outright?Â
What youâre scared of is people thinking for themselves âŠÂ
Let them think and let us get back to enjoying art.
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