The American children's storyscape has been rich with appeals to imagination as the primary desirable faculty, to be cultivated and expanded without bounds. Thi

The American children's storyscape has been rich with appeals to imagination as the primary desirable faculty, to be cultivated and expanded without bounds. This has been the case for some decades, now. This seems to be a natural endpoint to that push for greater and greater exercise of imagination: the substitution of the real with the imagined. This has further-reaching consequences for the worldview of these children if you observe them today.