Now that we spend so much of our lives immersed in the worlds of the fantasy-industrial complex, it seems we have become more like little children mentally. “There is no inevitable march toward objectivity or enlightenment,” the Harvard child psychologist Paul Harris writes in his book Trusting What You’re Told: How Children Learn from Others. “The endpoint of cognitive development is not objectivity and equilibrium. It is a mix of the natural and supernatural, of truth and fantasy, of faith and uncertainty.”
