Socially speaking, literature has had an impacts on the view of women and people of diverse ethnic backgrounds for the longest time. Fiction itself can propagate dangerous ideas. People like to say that video games are just video games, but times tells a different story. A movie may just be a movie, but Jaws lead to an uprise of sharks being killed out of fear due to their aggressive nature. So much so that the original creator dedicated entire books to trying to dispel the idea that sharks were dangerous to society as a whole.
 
Socially speaking, literature has had an impacts on the view of women and people of diverse ethnic backgrounds for the longest time. Fiction itself can propagate dangerous ideas. People like to say that video games are just video games, but times tells a different story. A movie may just be a movie, but Jaws lead to an uprise of sharks being killed out of fear due to their aggressive nature. So much so that the original creator dedicated entire books to trying to dispel the idea that sharks were dangerous to society as a whole.
my favorite quote from the movie: "a whaaaaaaaa..."
 
i just got an idea for free global electricity.
we tie a semielastic rope to the moon. we make a train track going around the earth that conducts electricity. we get a rail car with a friction generator and tie the rope to it. the moon is just gonna tow that thing around the earth.
 
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