Faerie-Tale

Narrated belief that faerie-myth reflects an Earth-world interest in transcendence of 'real' hysteria.

A narrated claim about the pseudo-rationalism of faerie-myth, inspired by FairyTale: A True Story (Harvey Keitel). Thanks for reading! 

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I started learning about faeries (tiny mythical creatures of the Earth-forest with wings and messages of wisdom/warning) and two really intriguing modern era films about their existence and was drawn to the work of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle regarding faerie-myth and then began studying the story of the Cottingley Fairies. I decided to share my fascination with faerie-mythology with like-minded friends on social-media in the American Homeland in the post-9/11 era.

Faeries have been rumored to be roaming our planet for many centuries/generations and have been claimed to be sighted by many folks and these claims saw a resurgence and high in popularity in recent times, perhaps as a spiritual backlash against the urbanization-capitalism indulgences of our civilized world and all its bureaucracy. As a cognitive psychologist, I was first drawn to their intrigue as a reflection of anti-industrialization mysticism mentalism examinations, but then I started thinking about their odd appearance and wondered if they were somehow real in some form, perhaps a representation of some evolutionary oddity or organic-life on Earth, indicating a special smoke-or-water of the complications of the progression of life and the explosion of population inflations. Are these creatures real or not?

I started visiting the South Jersey library (United States) after graduating from Dartmouth and learning about how faerie-myth may be coordinated with 'standard' Catholic dogma/beliefs and how their representative colorfulness and angel-like messages for peace/protection/omens/caution might remind us of the value of shared ideas about competition-temperance in this time of globalism-commerce rhetoric (hmm).

I visited an old professor/friend of mine in Philadelphia, Dr. Miles Leo, who'd been studying why faeries/Martians appealed to the human psyche especially in recent times, concurrent with the rise of tech-use and consumerism lifestyle trends and argued in his presentations in the Penn-environment that the "faerie might reveal our own self-visualization fascination with choreographing immortality and safety in the 'background' of endured economics indulgences or even morality-paranoia and therefore draw interest from intelligentsia intrigued by the quality of Earth's special 'hubris' culture (for education)."

Maybe that's what we need on Earth now --- a real 'cool' superstition regarding protective spirits/beings like faeries who'll draw us away from civilization/industrialization 'complications' like terrorism and eco-pollution. That's to say that faeries offer a sort of 'religious daydream' to tackle our really 'tangible' manmade erections symbolic of the 'matrix' of capitalism-race biases. Do faeries remind us of the 'social-media or Selfie culture' value of simplified stability? Should we think of 'faeries' when we think of the patriotism of the Los Angeles Angels (baseball) or Las Vegas Raiders (football) and why they represent antiterrorism magic? As I started exploring this specific question, I began to wonder if I might want to (secretly) 'witness' the existence of faeries in this modern age of great (and undoubted)...fury (hmm).

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,

For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”

― William Butler Yeats

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)