As Hollywood doles out one superhero movie after another and the teen romantic-fantasy book genre delivers endless dreck, our culture becomes total fantasy, one without acknowledgement of our current place in history – which is characterized by rampant unemployment and underemployment, staggering debt, a diminishing middle class, racial injustice, transphobia, environmental disaster, and emotionally and intellectually stunted political groups paid by massive corporations to perpetuate fantasies in order to dilute the collective consciousness of the West.
