Real fiction

“The war, of course, furnished many examples of this pattern: the casual fact, the creative imagination, the will to believe, and out of these three elements, a counterfeit of reality to which there was a violent instinctive response. For it is clear enough that under certain conditions men respond as powerfully to fictions as they do to realities, and that in many cases they help to create the very fictions to which they respond.”
― Walter LippmannThanks to Kevin.
The passage you provided describes a pattern in which people are influenced by their perceptions of reality, which are shaped by their creative imaginations and their desire to believe certain things. The passage suggests that under certain conditions, people can be strongly influenced by fiction or counterfeit reality, and that they may even contribute to creating these fictions themselves.
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