In Search of Escapism? Look to the Past

In this dreadful time of nearly every form of American media being infected by politics, short-sighted and often malicious agendas, and altruistic posturing, it can be hard to steer clear of it all. Beloved characters and IP’s being rewritten for “modern audiences”, award shows changing their rules, preachy messages that aim to make you feel bad about nearly everything, and the pandering, oh the pandering.

It’s all so tiring. It makes one ask, “What is even counter-culture anymore? Where did it go?”

So what can you do?

I would say vote with your wallet, but it’s not even about profit for companies that peddle this drivel. They’ve chosen the hill they wish to die on, so I say let them.

Now’s a good time to turn to the past. Consume old media. Old tv shows, movies, music, and books. Oh books! Not some politician’s autobiography that was ghost written by someone else and suspiciously is a New York Times Bestseller even before release. I mean fiction. Stories that spark your imagination and take you somewhere else. Neverland, Narnia, Middle Earth, Hogwarts, etc. Heck, Mars or the Moon.

Literature is perhaps the last bastion of free expression. Probably because most people under the age of 40 don’t read.

Of course, you may not stay as hip to the “current thing” as your peers, but they’ll all be mindless zombies once they connect to those new Apple Vision Pro headsets anyway.