Lord, please get me out of here. The aforementioned quote was verbatim from a colleague. Being me, which you will learn dear reader, means I spoke up. Fortunately, I did not say the first thing that came to mind which was “that’s incredibly ignorant,” but instead went with the argument of history being filtered through an author and technically not being “factual”. In truth, only science is factual and that is only after a theory has been proven. Much of the history we learn in school has been edited to maintain the image of America being a land of opportunity for all and not a land of serious oppression. But let’s revisit the original idea of not learning anything from fiction.
So we can’t learn ANYTHING from fiction you say… can’t learn what it is like to step into another’s shoes? Can’t learn that someone else in another place and time felt the same way we do in this moment? Can’t learn what it is like to feel compassion? To feel excitement? That we aren’t ever truly alone?
It’s startling to me that this person is in their early 20’s, someone who would have been raised on Harry Potter where one of the main lessons is just because it only exists in your mind doesn’t make it any less real.
It is the thoughts of the individual that have led to ALL of recorded history so please, tell me again how fiction can’t teach us anything. Good fiction will always teach the reader but the teacher will only appear when the student is ready.
too fat to be italian 