Wednesday, May 21, 2008

In love of fiction

I just got my first subscription to "Cemetery Dance" and I love it. And I am sad that more people don't buy and read fiction magazines. Especially horror magazines, since that I what I love. Of course it took me years to get the subscription, so I am not better. But, I would say buy these magazines. I just found this magazine "Red Scream" and it looked awesome. But the day I went to buy my subscription, they were out of business. I found them on a Friday, and by the time I had the cash to buy the subscription, they were gone. What is wrong with our culture that we don't read. That we have American Idol as the most watched show on television. Could you find a form of entertainment that involves and requires less creativity? I don't think you could.
Read and read fiction. This sudden love of non-fiction explains why we are no longer the scientific leader in the world. We have lost our cultural and collective imagination. We need them back. We need to imagine, to make up, to pretend, to play.

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