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Nonfiction readers. Do you feel guilty reading fiction? (lemm.ee)

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Do you feel guilty when you read fiction some times? Do you feel like it's a frivolous pursuit? Sometimes, I do, because I'd think to myself "might as well watch a TV show", and I hardly ever watch TV shows because, to me, they're a waste of time. But damn it, some of these novels are so good and I can't stop once I started reading them.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Totally agree. I'm not expert in Nietzsche but my understanding is at least some works overlapped fiction and ground breaking philosophy.

Anyways, you can read good or bad fiction. And you can read good or bad non fiction. And how can you make an argument that poetry shouldn't exist and is a waste of time for society?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thus_Spoke_Zarathustra