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Description: when we're stressed out or tired, even though we know it's not going to be helpful. We just can't help ourselves. When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our old habits, which is why this disenchantment is so important. Seeing what we get from our habits

Andrew O'Hagan

The working class of England take their deracination completely for granted. Disenchantment is the happy code that informs every byway of the underclass: service jobs, celebrity dreams, Lotto wins, leisured poverty on pre-crunch credit cards, it's all there, part of the story of an English people whose grandparents never had it so good.

Scottish Novelist

Dana Loesch

The tea party movement sprung from plain old disenchantment, disappointment, and outright anger at being fleeced by a government who mistook their primary job as being 'spend cash mon-nay' rather than execute the Constitution.

American Activist

Enrique Pena Nieto

Mexico has proven by now that it's a strong electoral democracy. Now we have to build a democracy that produces better results; if not, then you get a democracy of disenchantment.

Mexican Statesman

Barkha Dutt

The BJP brand of Hindutva was originally rooted in middle-class disenchantment with secular hypocrisies; Modi's version is defined simply by hard-edged hatred.

Indian Journalist

William Throsby Bridges

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Australian Soldier

Jacob Weisberg

Where Reagan channeled disenchantment with overweening government, Obama symbolized America's transformation into a multiracial country.

American Journalist

Max Weber

The fate of our times is characterized by rationalization and intellectualization and, above all, by the disenchantment of the world.

German Economist

Zygmunt Bauman

As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Polish Sociologist

Jean-Paul Sartre

Like all dreamers, I mistook disenchantment for truth.

French Philosopher

Used when initial joy fades, and reality doesn't meet expectations.

After Excitement

Marks a change from positive to negative feelings about something once positive.

Negative Shift

Reflects a personal response, may vary greatly between different people.

Personal Feeling

Used when something loses its magical or special quality.

Magic Fades

It's about actual magic in stories or fairy tales, not just a metaphor.

Literal Magic

Mostly found in literature or media that involves fantasy elements.

Fantasy Genre

 when we're stressed out or tired, even though we know it's not going to be helpful. We just can't help ourselves. When the prefrontal cortex goes offline, we fall back into our old habits, which is why this disenchantment is so important. Seeing what we get from our habits

A simple way to break a...

 at risk of engineering the romance out of our lives romance which perhaps is the ultimate differential in a world of maximizers and optimizers we've been at a point of such disenchantment before 200 years ago

Disenchantment

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