Escapism: Rationalized

This is something that I’ve always had a hard time understanding about myself: that somehow the ability to care for our own world can come in second to imagined worlds.  It’s not that hunger, poverty, oppression, exploitation, and conflict don’t bother me, they very much do, but if I’m honest, I might have gotten just as worked up about the Weinstein brothers trying to remove the soul of Fanboys.  So, I have a lot of respect for folks who care very deeply about real world issues and are advocates for change (my wife, for instance; Joel Daniel Harris too).  That’s all not to say I don’t do my part, I do, but if you look at where the majority of my time and energy go, it ends up going to escapism.