big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoFiction is basically a drug.message-squaremessage-square10fedilinkarrow-up114arrow-down114file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareFiction is basically a drug.big_fat_fluffy@leminal.space to Showerthoughts@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square10fedilinkfile-text
Both : Give pleasure. Alter your consciousness. Are addictive. Are delivered via a small, portable device.
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoI think most anthropologists would agree that storytelling is an innate human activity far older than drug use.
minus-squarebig_fat_fluffy@leminal.spaceOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 days agoSurely drug use is as old as eating. From the first time that you eat a strange berry or funky apple.
minus-squareAbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 days agoFair, but there’s no evidence it became a regular part of human culture before the agricultural revolution. Whereas storytelling seems to be an innate social activity, probably as old as language itself.
I think most anthropologists would agree that storytelling is an innate human activity far older than drug use.
Surely drug use is as old as eating. From the first time that you eat a strange berry or funky apple.
Funky Apple is my rap name.
Fair, but there’s no evidence it became a regular part of human culture before the agricultural revolution. Whereas storytelling seems to be an innate social activity, probably as old as language itself.