# Fiction, Lie, Mimesis

I have concluded that it's okay to lie. Because every fiction is
a lie. I don't think everything should be a nonfiction. Though it
depends on the kind of a lie.



Everything is mimesis of Monad. Cells self-replicate. A son is
mimesis of his father. Therefore creation is making mimesis.

Aristotle was right about this. But it is not just about human
nature. It is universal. It is inherent in logos.

Thus denial of mimesis is denial of the creative force. If you
argue that mimesis is necessarily worse than what it imitates, you
are essentially Gnostic. Plato was too in this case. Iconoclasm is
also quite Gnostic.



Therefore fiction, lie, acting, roleplay, cosplay, or whatever
kinds are not inherently wrong just because those are fake. It's
just that there are good mimesis and ugly mimesis.

Good mimesis shows eternal truth. Like numbers. But ugly mimesis
harms people. Mimesis of a human body with the golden ratio is
inherently better than a fraud. But the problem of it does not come
from it being fake. That's my point.