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Podcast: Fantastical Truth
Episode: 79. How Do We Use Fantastic Fiction to Process Wars and Rumors of Wars?
Description: This week marks the twentieth-year anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States. Maybe you dimly recall these terrible events, but both of us remember them quite well. We also recall the stories and other images we used while trying to understand how people could do this. We will explore not just Sept. 11, and similar events today, but the greater question of how we use fantastic fiction to process real wars and rumors of wars.
Concession stand
At this time we won’t debate war or particular wars (not even Afghanistan).
Wars are political, bu...