Is Warhammer an escape?

Hello and welcome back to another weekly blog post. In this post I wanted to build off of something we did in class, which was a writing activity to reflect on what we had learned so far. As I’ve covered in previous posts, we were learning about the 1950s, and the thing I chose to write about was how the 1950s started escapism as we know it today. If you want to read the whole thing, I’ve put it down below.

But what I want to talk about today is if you can use Warhammer as a form of escapism, and to answer that we need to know what escapism is. Well, the definition of escapism is “the tendency to seek distraction and relief from unpleasant realities, especially by seeking entertainment or engaging in fantasy.” Well, Warhammer is a tabletop game, so it is a form of entertainment. But, you do have to find someone else to play with, and games take a while, so it takes some commitment to actually play a game.

When you think of someone trying to distract themselves, it would probably be something instantaneous like watching a movie or daydreaming. But escapism goes much further than that, because it can be literally anything that distracts you from something boring or unpleasant in your life. Forms of escapism can be simple things like playing video games or listening to music, but they can also be things that take a lot of commitment and time, like traveling or going on a vacation. So yes, Warhammer can be a form of escapism if you use it as a distraction, but the same goes for pretty much anything that you use to distract yourself, be it another hobby or interest.

I know this may have been a shorter post than normal, but this is just something I wanted to talk about, and researching this topic was also pretty interesting. So that’s about it for this blog post, and remember to stay tuned.