#Escapism

Grayson Perry on art as escapism:“I was with my teddy bear and my models in my bedroom, and yet outside was my family life thundering on. In my mind, there
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Feels like our utter determination to return to normal has destroyed normality. There have been so many moments at which we could have stopped, reflected, changed course. But this seems
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@NadzryAbuBakar has nicely raised up many concerns about the grassroots football economic impact.Social impact aspect, football provides escapism from stress. Mental health concerns are on the rise. Take football, stress
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Does your club care about you? Saw this asked earlier in the week.Thread. Emotive. It’s what I do. No, your football club does not care about you. Which is why
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Fuckit. Yesterday's events were an extreme, but let me remind folks that Whiteness permeates everything in this country with the same level of toxic entitlement. The creative industry is no
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In this age of escapism and spectators, many are living through the lives of fictional characters. While they become background characters in THEIR OWN lives. Spare yourself the tragedy, and
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one of the things that annoys me the most about the colonial nuclear family + patriarchal romanticism ideations, beyond its unabashed violence on oppressed people, is how it obfuscates, deprioritizes,
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I'm not one for resolutions, coz I've never manage to keep them. Better to see life as a journey where you don't know the destination and reflect on embracing what
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Oh for the love of Lono, go eat shit and let me have my puu-puu in peacehttps://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/23/business/tiki-bar-history.html The only thing that needs to be "repaired" here is your fucking brainhttps://twitter.com/nyt
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I don’t talk a lot about my mental and emotional health on here.No reason. Just don’t.But writing helps me process.Gives my my mind something to do as I move through
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Beyond concerns over civil liberties, what's fascinated me most about this bizarre obsession with fine-grained tracking/control over movement gripping city political leadership, is the discordance with those leaders' current/complet
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I've thought about this moment in contemporary #culture now for a while now Especially in the previous decade we saw many apocalyptic-themed fictional worksin Japan another trope becoming infamously popular
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Too many in our public health community have spent the last year ignoring history and ground level reality, and embracing anodyne theory and jibberish models. Below is a small snapshot
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Pathfinder game last night brought up something I think should be explicit in most games:Death should be a choice. By this, I mean that when you drop something to 0HP
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why this thread is literal garbage-A THREAD-https://twitter.com/vimhhh/status/1304682292699250688 lets start off w reason one. being a piece of shit and being insensitive and saying/doing offensive things isn’t a joke. the things
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hey everyone! now that we’ve had a day to take in the escapism chapter, i thought i would time contribute my interpretation in the form of this thread (enjoy this
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