Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History - Kurt Andersen
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A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe…to Donald Trump.
In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen demonstrates that what’s happening in our country today - this strange, post-factual, “fake news” moment we’re all living through - is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path. America was founded by wishful dreamers, magical thinkers, and true believers, by impresarios and their audiences, by hucksters and their suckers. Believe-whatever-you-want fantasy is deeply embedded in our DNA.
Over the course of five centuries - from the Salem witch trials to Scientology to the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, from P. T. Barnum to Hollywood and the anything-goes, wild-and-crazy 60s, from conspiracy theories to our fetish for guns and obsession with extraterrestrials - our peculiar love of the fantastic has made America exceptional in a way that we’ve never fully acknowledged. With the gleeful erudition and tell-it-like-it-is ferocity of a Christopher Hitchens, Andersen explores whether the great American experiment in liberty has gone off the rails.
From the start, our ultra-individualism was attached to epic dreams and epic fantasies - every citizen was free to believe absolutely anything, or to pretend to be absolutely anybody. Little by little, and then more quickly in the last several decades, the American invent-your-own-reality legacy of the Enlightenment superseded its more sober, rational, and empirical parts. We gave ourselves over to all manner of crackpot ideas and make-believe lifestyles designed to console or thrill or terrify us. In Fantasyland, Andersen brilliantly connects the dots that define this condition, portrays its scale and scope, and offers a fresh, bracing explanation of how our American journey has deposited us here.
Fantasyland could not appear at a more perfect moment. If you want to understand the politics and culture of 21st-century America, if you want to know how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you must listen to this book.
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This post has 9 comments
June 23rd, 2021
June teenth, BLM, ANTIFA, Russia Gate, there sure is a lot of Haywire
June 23rd, 2021
@leadingnorth
Can’t forget domestic terrorists, white supremacists, neo nazis, the KKK, the proud boys, the alt right, school shooters/mass shootings, police executing innocent people, conspiracy theorists, and the Trump asking Russians to look into hacking his opposition.
But I’m sure it’s just black people existing that’s the real problem..
June 24th, 2021
@Jack_Milad
Well… since you pointed the fact out…..
Less than 7% of a population causing over 50% of the murders does kinda point to one… color.
June 25th, 2021
@leadingnorth
Since you’re fond of dubious stats, I’m 99.9% sure you won’t read this book. So it’s 100% likely that you just came her to be a pesky little close-minded troll.
June 27th, 2021
The comments section here is for rating things like audio quality, speed of download and mislabeled audiobooks… they are certainly not for arguing over the validity of the book’s content.
Pipe down you lot, if you don’t want to read it, don’t read it.
June 27th, 2021
As if it’s not bad enough that Mr. Andersen insults Americans, he goes on to suggest that somehow the Democrats and progressives are impervious to the sways of such make-believe theories. And yet, time and time again, we can see how these new “liberals” live in a fairy tale, from the denial of science and gender-blender theories, to the outlandish make-believe world of democratic-socialism, to an all-benevolent government, it’s one fairy-tale after another.
June 29th, 2021
@dannystafford
You won’t get rid of them, unfortunately. They literally have nothing better to do. Developing a personality is too much work for them, and so, presumably, is finding gainful employment.
June 30th, 2021
@leadingnorth
I love it when Republicans bring out the “black people commit more crime and that’s a fact” argument into play. Because the implication is that it’s inherent to their skin colour, and that black people in general are somehow culpable. 67% of all terrorist attacks in america were perpetrated by white, right wing american males. So yeah, if you want to equate black people with crime, let’s do the same with Republicans and terrorism. Because “facts dont care about your feelings”.
July 28th, 2021
@Jiminy Cricket
Your MAGA pants are too tight, they’re stopping the blood getting to your brain.
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