People who can be around fantasy a lot, without losing track of reality.
LARPing Our Way To Armageddon
The intense and present danger of fantasy
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People who can be around fantasy a lot, without losing track of reality.
That's a useful skill in 2021, when the world, and particularly America, is being sucked into a vortex of unreality.
This isn't a bug of humankind, it's very much a feature.
Humans are what we are because of our ability to engage in the shared fantasy we call society / culture / civilisation.
Which has always brought with it some structural issues
That just got waaaaaaaaaaay more serious
That's not to be used as an excuse. These morons really were mounting an insurrection
while believing the whole thing was a game, fantasy, or LARP
Not only are there people who want to pull down democracy.
There are people who have become so untethered from reality that they will participate in the insurrection LARP
You start to realise that giant chunks of the population are detaching from reality, like ice bergs drifting into an ocean of fantasy.
If everyone in your village believes in Odin, you're gonna believe in Odin.