Based slightly on an old anime series that I’ve seen, imagine living in nation like this.
The government has banned fiction books, magazines, or anything else that considered fiction and entertainment. Even writing fiction for a hobby and a living is highly illegal. The only books you can digest are non-fiction books, documentaries, textbooks, and more like it.
Owning a fiction book is punishable by either death or many years in prison.
How would you be able to live day by day in a country where fiction is illegal?
I would miss it, but I could live day by day. It’s not like they’re depriving me of food or water.
However living in this culture cannot be pleasant. If they’re not allowing fiction, I’m sure there’s a lot more that this totalitarian government is restricting.
For most people, getting engaged in fiction is the same as needing food and water. Without it, those people feel like they are dying or rather starving.
i don’t know how i’d
noooo
fantasy
fiction
creativity
humanity would have deprived itself of a childhood and an imagination ;-;
is it even possible to live without an imagination or self-expression lol (i’m guessing art wouldn’t be safe from this ban either)
(answering the rhetorical question, it’s probably entirely possible. you can’t miss something you never had, and people would get used to it, would get horrified at the idea of fiction because they’d get conditioned to)
i think plenty of people would still do all those things, it’d just be illegal
so we’d all be committing crimes all the time on the down-low
Before people learned how to write, there was the spoken word.
You can ban entertainment but you can’t ban education.
Tell stories with morals included. No one said those stories need to be boring.
Oh definitely. I merely answered how I would be able to live day by day in such a country (which was your original question.)
Just curious, why was fiction illegal in the anime you referred to? Also why was non-fiction just fine. Did the government control the truth, thus making anything that wasn’t ‘non-fiction’ automatically against the law?
and all the culture that would get lost
