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07:14, 18 Oct 2024
Fiction is cheap.

This is true.

Lies are certainly tawdry. And yet...

Textbooks are expensive. Their contents belong to those who can afford to pay people to teach them what other people have decided is worthy of enshrining into fact.

Facts are a luxury, where golden nuggets of truth are indistinguishable from gilded misinformation. When people have paid over their parents' and grandparents' lives' savings to be given facts, they want absolutes.

Fiction is cheap. Its contents belong to those who can afford the time to visit unreal places, where people who never existed will show them aspects of truth reflected in myriad mirrors.

Fiction is essential, like food and shelter and company. Each person has a unique combination of favourites, enhancing each other with their subtle variety. Truth will out, emerging from experience (at first- or second-hand) of nuance.

Both "cheap" and "fiction" are neutral words, used as insults by those who have only ever consumed expensive facts.

14:45, 29 Oct 2022
I've been really busy with my projects! I've been thinking about them, planning the best way to do them, studying better ways to do them, and writing about how I'm really, definitely, absolutley going to do them right now.

I think I see the flaw in this methodology...