"Everyone wants to live an exciting life, but most people are afraid to take the bull by the horns.
So they take an easy option for an exciting life.
They live their excitement through other people.
By aligning themselves with famous rebels, a little bit of glamour rubs off on them. They imagine they’re like John Lennon, Ernest Hemingway, …"
So they take an easy option for an exciting life.
They live their excitement through other people.
By aligning themselves with famous rebels, a little bit of glamour rubs off on them. They imagine they’re like John Lennon, Ernest Hemingway, …"
- Paul Arden, Whatever You Think, Think the Opposite. London: Penguin 2006, p. 24. To my mind, still the best working definition of escapism we have today.
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