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Originally Posted by Dante Hicks
Well yeah, obviously. If I was homeless for example, I'd be looking to be smashed pretty much all the time as a method of dealing with the cold or just general horror of my existence.
But I think that's it's pretty misleading to presume that a group of friends who are going out together on a Friday night to get mashed are somehow "escpaing" anything. Unless you wish to, as others have on this forum have done in the past, define "escapism" in such a ridiculously broad manner as to render pretty much every human action ever as a form of escapism (and thus the term meaningless).
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You're right.
There are probably two reasons people drink to excess:
- purely in the pursuit of fun
- as a form of escapism
However, 'escapism' includes getting drunk to hide one's percieved social defects, whether it be in speaking to strangers, or in judgement.