Escape into the Future

2. Do We Still Want to Believe?: The X-Files and the American Struggle with Progressive Action

3. Perhaps Today: The Dialectic of Despair and Activism in Popular Evangelical Literature

4. God's Unwanted: Fight Club and the Myth of "Total Revolution"

5. Relocating the American Dream: The Challenges and Ambiguities of Contemporary Cultural Pessimism

6. The Quest for a Real-World Correlate Sightings of Cultural Pessimism in the Domains of Scholarship and Journalism

7. The Question of Real-World Correlates to Fantasy Processes of Decline: The Deep Structure of Decay, or, Descent into the Engine Room of the RMS Titanic

Epilogue-Into the Great Wide Open