Re: Escapism
Kind of a het-up article over at i09 hits on interesting points but fails to point out the obvious: people escape in communities. The opiate of the masses is actually that cult of the selfish, doomed individual creator--the one we may someday but probably won't become--who is able to escape the bounds of community and indulge himself in great thoughts and statutory rape.
THE SUPERCOLLIDER is a survey of two badly reviewed genres, Science Fiction and Poetry, but swerves dipsomaniacally into politics, interactive art and classix. Formerly THE ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY.