I enjoy reading some fiction, be it historical, science or quasi-fantasy, or realistic. Like action or crime story types. Certain ones, not the really sensational ones. Well, I guess that is subjective. Like everything.
Some people consider religious literature as fiction as well.
So be it.
All of it, especially the more orderly and compelling stuff, helps order our stories, narratives, and understanding of the real world. Fiction can help us understand or see into the real, reality. Obviously historical fiction has its place, because it intertwines the known parts of history, big and small, to give us more nuanced or intrinsic conceptions of how things either really or possibly took place.
Back in 2007 I became friends with a guy who loved Kurt Vonnegut. So I went to the local library and read him some more. I had already read "Cat's Cradle" around 1998, and very much enjoyed it. I went on to read about 4 or 5 more, including the well known "Slaughterhouse 5", of high school fame.
Vonnegut did put some order into the universe, as does Joseph Heller also with World War II and MASH of the Korean conflict, or to some degree any war, like Vietnam.
Absurdity and humor have their place in making sense of our world, us humans. We are absurd and funny, much of the time.
And fiction can have that effect on our rational minds: order the mayhem, or the apparent chaos.
Is this how so-called rational minded humans explain the religious and faithful people of the world?
I guess so. That makes sense.
But rationally, it seems to me that there is more than meets the eye and the empirical senses when we explain our existence. To understand our own psychologies, or pathologies, as perhaps a more cynical view would perceive it, we use "play" as a way to order our world, to form real comprehension.
Sometimes non-native languages even come across this way, or artistic wording or poetry. It all may enhance our way of "getting" things. It may seem farcical or fanciful or wasted extra breath or silly nuance, or simply fake and therefore unimportant knowledge and trivia, but it actually sharpens our saws in order to further understand the whole picture, which touches on ALL knowledge.
Gives a good slant on "art", right? Rationalists or Ayn Rand objectivists may have to concede this or even celebrate and advocate this concept. Right?
N'est pas?
Blog on, EMC,
Some people consider religious literature as fiction as well.
So be it.
All of it, especially the more orderly and compelling stuff, helps order our stories, narratives, and understanding of the real world. Fiction can help us understand or see into the real, reality. Obviously historical fiction has its place, because it intertwines the known parts of history, big and small, to give us more nuanced or intrinsic conceptions of how things either really or possibly took place.
Back in 2007 I became friends with a guy who loved Kurt Vonnegut. So I went to the local library and read him some more. I had already read "Cat's Cradle" around 1998, and very much enjoyed it. I went on to read about 4 or 5 more, including the well known "Slaughterhouse 5", of high school fame.
Vonnegut did put some order into the universe, as does Joseph Heller also with World War II and MASH of the Korean conflict, or to some degree any war, like Vietnam.
Absurdity and humor have their place in making sense of our world, us humans. We are absurd and funny, much of the time.
And fiction can have that effect on our rational minds: order the mayhem, or the apparent chaos.
Is this how so-called rational minded humans explain the religious and faithful people of the world?
I guess so. That makes sense.
But rationally, it seems to me that there is more than meets the eye and the empirical senses when we explain our existence. To understand our own psychologies, or pathologies, as perhaps a more cynical view would perceive it, we use "play" as a way to order our world, to form real comprehension.
Sometimes non-native languages even come across this way, or artistic wording or poetry. It all may enhance our way of "getting" things. It may seem farcical or fanciful or wasted extra breath or silly nuance, or simply fake and therefore unimportant knowledge and trivia, but it actually sharpens our saws in order to further understand the whole picture, which touches on ALL knowledge.
Gives a good slant on "art", right? Rationalists or Ayn Rand objectivists may have to concede this or even celebrate and advocate this concept. Right?
N'est pas?
Blog on, EMC,
Added 8 July 2023
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