71c4ff No.4052
It's so easy to fall in love with a simulacrum, to the point that I like keeping up with digital gossip of their private lives via the newest works on wikipedia. It doesn't matter that they're fictional. As long as the author lives on, fans must take comfort in knowing their hero/waifu lives on and anyone can peep into their private world by buying the latest installment of a series for only a few bucks.
Our love of fiction is the height of simulacrum. I wouldn't be surprised if a love for biographies and history were hardwired into us so we would learn to avoid others' mistakes. Love for dramatic fiction must piggy-back off of evolutionary drives, just like society's love for theology.
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