Normal people don't live in their escapism
You think he could've had someone proofread his posts?
I don't have anything to support this, but I think all people, at some point in their lives, seek a way out of their daily lives. A lot of people fall into substance abuse as a form of escapism, and that fucks their lives up. At that point, they live in their escapism more than Chris will ever be able to. Fuck, there's people that commit suicide to escape the shit they're going through. I don't think Chris' fantasies are comparable to substance abuse or suicide, they're more in line with writing fiction.
If you consider addicts normal, yeah. I'm thinking more along the lines of people with decent jobs and decent lives in general. Something Chris doesn't have.
There are people at every socioeconomic level that fall into a several different forms of substance abuse (i.e. not just addiction) and psychological disorders as a way to cope with various stresses of daily life. Literally a quarter of the population over the age of 18 in the United States binge drinks on a monthly basis. Tens of millions of people suffered from heavy alcohol abuse. Tens of thousands of people in the US commit suicide every year for myriad reasons. Chris is one of literally millions of people that are dissatisfied with their lives and trying to find some respite. Chris' fucking stupid fantasies are a particularly nondestructive form of escapism.
Most people looking for escape from daily life don't concoct bizarre apocalyptic narratives about ponies and hedgehogs. Also, Chandler has a history of destructive, anti-social behavior so it's natural that people would be wary of any dark turns this whole episode could take.
The specifics of his fantasy don't really matter. I don't mean to imply that he's particularly creative or that his fantasies are well put together, but rather that the concept of fantasy escapism is completely within the bounds of normal human behavior.
The outward negative impact of his behavior has been relatively mild. It's fine to worry about him, but your expectations for normal behavior are too high if you think fantasy escapism isn't normal.
I don't think he actually believes it, but, rather, really wants to believe it. Someone is taking advantage of that.
I wish we could see what a meth saga would be like.
I wish something like this existed, so that it could tell us what happened if Chris met past versions of himself
Somewhere in the multiverse some poor version of Liquid Chris is dead.
We've known that Chris has believed in fiction since the second Alec phone call:
I do know addicts, who doesn't? But I said people with decent lives, as in good lives. Someone addicted to a substance definitely doesn't have a good life. People with good lives have no reason to fall into the escapism of magical ponies or drugs or whatever because they have no reason to. People with good/average lives obviously engage in escapism like playing a game to let off steam or cuddling up with a book, but if you get to the point that you abandon real life to live in imaginationland, you're not normal.
