Well, ‘foma’ as this article and Vonnegut use it, is about things where believing in them has some useful effect, even if they are not true in themselves (yet, or ever). I guess society is based on a lot of such things—e.g. warrior-ethos in the olden days.
Well, ‘foma’ as this article and Vonnegut use it, is about things where believing in them has some useful effect, even if they are not true in themselves (yet, or ever). I guess society is based on a lot of such things—e.g. warrior-ethos in the olden days.