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I don’t read fiction. I find it a waste of time. There are so many amazing things that are real; I don’t need to spend any time on a made-up story.
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Jason Fried
This makes me sad. I appreciate Fried’s frankness, his passion and his ideas, but I will never understand someone who can simply swear off fiction so easily. Does he not watch films? Plays? Read poetry? Has he sworn off television and radio shows? Or is his anti-fiction stance limited only to books?
Can he not appreciate both true and fictional stories? Does he feel great novelists or playwrights or screenwriters have all wasted their lives?
Sometimes “getting real” can go too far.
(via maniacalrage)
I’m totally with Jason here. Though I’m a big space fan, the difference between fiction and non-fiction is a bit like the argument of spending money on space exploration or fixing the problems on earth. Ultimately fixing should go first. Similar preferring non-fiction is like getting towards fixing/understanding reality bit by bit.
Admittedly, however, it’s easy to understand why he is still single. That’s one big ego right there.
