“How many adventure films does it take to compensate for a lack of adventure? How many superhero movies must one watch, to compensate for the atrophied expression of one’s greatness? How much pornography to meet the need for intimacy? How much entertainment to substitute for missing play? It takes an infinite amount. That’s good news for economic growth, but bad news for the planet.”
- Charles Eisenstein

I used to watch a lot of movies, but I no longer feel like watching them. It’s because I think that consuming movies are like watching porn: You see someone do something, and you wish it were you. But then the movie ends, and you’re left in your own misery. But to keep on stimulating you and making you feel like you actually did it, you keep on watching it again and again. And the cycle repeats.

I can’t count the times when I watched the Dark Knight Trilogy and wish if I could be like the Batman (ugh). Same goes for Rocky Balboa, John McClane and all these characters I adored.

And another thing: these characters aren’t real. They’re fiction. I have found my own real-life heroes: David Goggins, Edward Snowden, GSP etc. But I don’t blindly worship them. I take what’s good about them. And none of them are actors, just saying.

I don’t wanna sound ungrateful: these movies gave me some hope at a time.

But relying on movies till I die and using it to numb my inner voices?
Nah, I’ll pass.