PART 2. Is Fiction a Cop-Out?

We make choices when we get to the intersection of reality and fiction. I think everything is rooted in these four choices.

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Stoetry

, Mea culpa Christopher Meesto Erato. I got your name wrong in the last post. Thanks for your understanding.

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Now, we get to that place where our grasp of reality and fiction meet and we make choices. I think these choices are based on personality types. Different types of people do different things.

• Back out of the situation and get proof. Find data; find out what is real. These are scientists and journalists. Unsatisfied with not knowing.

• You go in, and you realize you don’t know what’s going on past a certain point. You don’t have the science, and you’re also not an opportunist. What you do is imagine what it must be like and what it might be like, and you use the situation to explore possibilities. You don’t know the answers, but you can imagine things that are interesting to other people, and it gets their wheels turning, and it’s entertaining. It's a healthy activity as long as you don’t get stuck there and ignore reality.

• This is kind of a combination of one and four, kind of. You are the one who makes the lemonade. You create a solution to some unknown problem that existed before your integration. You have pushed the envelope of what is known. You saw the future, and science caught up to you.

• Go in and see the danger and confusion that come with the uncertainty of what is real. There are threats in the unknown, so you make up a scenario and create propaganda to take people off the problem, and you use that to foment fear. You use the situation to control people about the unknown and, most definitely, find a way to profit from it. You either profit by maintaining the problem and using the effects of it as your rallying cry, or you make the solution so expensive that you and your friends get rich off of your dishonesty. Now you can say whatever you want because people are so scared and confused that they don’t know what’s real anymore. You win. Good for you. What a great career! You will do that, or you’ll become some kind of white collar criminal, and if you can’t fake your way through school, you’ll be some kind of violent organized crime person. Golly, you had great parents.

  

  IMPASSE WITH FOUR VARIABLES.