We Are Surrounded By Fictions Because They Are Useful

One of them is the law. But fictions aren’t always bad.

Photo by Aziz Acharki

For centuries parents have threatened their children with the idea of a monster of some sort that will come and take them if they don’t behave. The start of our century, for all its flaws and horrors, is thankfully starting to reject child traumatisation as a viable approach to…