fiction is inevitable

1. I stopped reading fiction for fun when I went to college. Mainly because I realised the quality of facts in the world was poor enough, so I might as well just study facts. Plus it was time to actually worry about making a living. Such privilege.

2. Fiction remains an important variety of fact : it shows us what people think about, irrespective of correlation to objective states of affairs. 

3. Moreover, many fictions are treated naively as facts. No one actually knows which is which. Everyone tries their luck based on personal experience. 

... this is pretty much the only reason I watch movies, read summaries on Wikipedia, and study history, particularly the history of religion. 

Fiction is inevitable.