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| Richard Adams Locke (1800 - 1871)- American journalist, author of the Great Moon Hoax. (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
A new book talks about America's descent into magical thinking.
What’s the “fantasy-industrial complex”?
Kurt Andersen
I coined the term to try to capture something important that has evolved in this country. In the ‘60s, almost everything in America becomes entertainment. Everything in America is like show business. That's the genesis of the idea that I saw happening as early as the 1800s when I started looking at it. In the 1830s, for example, we had newspapers publishing hoaxes as though they were news.
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