why do some people never grow out of fantasy and science fiction?

Its the other way around. A fantasy enjoyer is higher level thinking person than any armchair intellectual insecure 20th century philosopher cock sucking prick.

>>24576477
You are a manchild

>>24576477
This but unironically. Fantasy, especially the old myths, the pre-modern stories and fairy tales are comfy and fill the soul. It's baked into our DNA for whatever reason. People like OP are faggots who can't enjoy the little things in life. I'm not much of a sci-fi guy, though.

>>24576468 (OP)
>why do some people never conform?
Because you do not have soul or spark of humanity, you are like cardboard cutout but 3d

>>24576509
>goody do shoes idealist calls someone manchild
Life have no meaning, its just is.

>>24576520
Is /lit/ full of blackpilled pajeets now?
Grim

it's absurd to draw an arbitrary line and claim that you're allowed to make up the plot of a book and include a bunch of extremely unlikely events, but you're not allowed to make up the world of the book.

reading the greeks really cemented for me that genre fiction is not only fine, it's particularly well-suited to the kinds of questions I want books to grapple with.

I do think "worldbuilding" and "lore" are traps, but it's still ridiculous to claim that sci-fi and fantasy can't be literary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Relations

>>24576468 (OP)
It's actually people like you who don't "outgrow" their adolescent vanity of being one of the true literati of elite impeccable taste. Those who enjoy fantasy/scifi have a genuine love for reading, without pretensions - because it never got anyone any prestige, only pleasure from a good story.

>>24576468 (OP)
> 'Fairy stories are for kids. I live in the real world.' [...]
> Such a rejection of the entire art of fiction is related to several American characteristics: our Puritanism, our work ethic, our profit-mindedness, and even our sexual mores.
> To read War and Peace or The Lord of the Rings plainly is not 'work' - you do it for pleasure. And if it cannot be justified as 'educational' or 'self improvement', then, in the Puritan value system, it can only be self-indulgence or escapism. For pleasure is not a value, to the Puritan; on the contrary, it is a sin.
In short, because I'm not soulless.

what should I read instead? The internal monologue of some dork who got bullied in school?

You are sick