This is the precise opposite of entertainment as escapism, the wish to ignore reality. Michael Moorcock once attacked J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth fantasies as escapism that encouraged a Tory view of the world. Tolkien rebuked the young Marxist, saying that “jailers always hate escapism.” Moorcock famously replied that actually jailers love escapism—what they hate is an actual jailbreak.
