“If you grow up with it, religion is real until you realize it is also imagined. And after a period of disenchantment or even depression that associates imagination with lies, you might then sense that the imagined part was also real, but because it’s imagined, you know you can change it.”

Matthew reflects on how Santa becomes more real in the home after the kids know he’s just a story, but a story of unbridled love and causeless generosity they can now participate in telling.

Happy holidays, everyone!

Show Notes

A Christmas Carol: Dedicated to Scrooge, And His Art Collection—McKenzie Wark

Ringmaster: Vince McMahon and the Unmaking of America — Abraham Josephine Riesman

Welcome to Neokayfabe—Jodie Reisman 

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