By Definition #2…

“How does a collective imagination – hanging, it seems, on ideas ‘up in the air’, judged by reasoning reason as factitious, fantastic, erroneus, empty ideas, indeed even as mumbo-jumbo or as pernicious ideas – how does this imagination exert a force of attraction, mobilization, dynamization, activation or reactivization…”

Henri Desroche: ‘The Sociology of Hope’ 1979