Joining Our Nation Blog

It’s Not What You Know

It’s Not What You Know

“Fantasy-related industries” conflate fantasy and reality.

According to sociologist Max Weber, in Western cultures, fantasy may be propelled by disenchantment with modernity, and thus a desire to escape various cultural strictures imposed by science and technology. Here, our interest is about problematic aspects of fantasy reification, and we focus upon two. One deals with the abdication of civic responsibility. The other is macroeconomic in nature. It discusses Depression-era attempts to constrain public policy, anchored in religious belief.

read more