Alec Ramsdell:
> One thing I also had in mind with my original post is
> how fantasy acts not only to mobilize politics, but
> also to organize and sustain relations of exploitation
> and oppression. To the extent that it does, there's
> no unsuccessful politics without a good fantasy.
The logical sum: there is no politics without a good fantasy. That makes sense: in revolution, reform and reaction, one wants to bring the unreal forth from the real; in conservatism, one wants to preserve the unreal one has from the real one fears (whose fundamental principle is change and decay).
Attention to poetics is indicated.