In and of itself, fantasy is not a bad thing, It’s just the way it’s packaged and delivered to us in such abundance that seems troubling to me. The happy family in the spacious, airy white kitchen, sparkling clean from the magic cleaning product. The afflicted, but smiling seniors reveling in their new medications, oblivious to the side effects that will kill them. The raft of procedures, creams and ointments that will bring back youth and self-fulfillment. The commercials with cars on mountaintops and drivers driving like cool maniacs. The endless romantic comedies where beautiful people turn sex into love. The entertainment spectacles. Social media is filled with fantasy, and pornography is more of the same.
In entertainment, marketing and advertisement, we are fed a steady diet of escapist fantasy. We crave it without always realizing what it is. Meanwhile, we miss the pleasures and challenges of real life.
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