Youre entitled to your own opinion but not your own factsFantasy is the USAs primary product. From the Pilgrim Fathers onward America has been a place where renegades and freaks came in search of freedom to create their own realities with little objectively regulated truth standing in their way. The freedom to invent and believe whatever the hell you like is, in some ways, an unwritten constitutional right. But, this doyourownthing freedom also is the driving credo of Americas current transformation where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling. So how did we get to this weird pseudoreality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favour of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post truth, fake news, freeforall mentality isnt exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trumps America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the very beginning and take a dizzying road trip across five centuries of crackpot delusion and makebelieve from Salem to Scientology.Fantasyland is a journey that connects the dots between crazed franchises of true believers a rich freak show tapestry from Mormons to FlatEarthers and satanic panic, new age quacks to antivaxxers, conspiracy theorists of every stripe, creationists to climate change deniers, UFOobsessives to guntoting libertarians, showmen hucksters from P T Barnum to Trump himself, all topped off with a dangerous dose of...

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