Naming the Appeal of Fantasy Worlds

One of the tasks of analytic social psychology.

At the end of a Belabored episode a few years back, Adolph Reed, Jr. offers a helpful description of what we at Damage call pathologies of the left:

I’m as convinced as anyone that we can change society to make it better. My beef is with the tendency to imagine that things aren’t as bad as they are, that we don’t need to do the things that we need to do,…