Fantasyland

You¿re entitled to your own opinion but not your own facts

Fantasy is the USA¿s 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 do-your-own-thing freedom also is the driving credo of America''s current transformation where the difference between opinion and fact is rapidly crumbling.

So how did we get to this weird pseudo-reality, where science and objective facts are dismissed in favour of opinions and wild speculation, or indeed, fantasies? The post truth, fake news, free-for-all mentality isn¿t exactly a new phenomenon. If you want to understand Trump''s America, how the lines between reality and illusion have become dangerously blurred, you have to go back to the