The Importance of Fiction in Shaping Our Reality

Fri Mar 20 2026

Blazing Reader,

In this two-minute video, James Corbett of The Corbett Report discusses how fictional stories affect our worldviews, leading to actions which change our reality — citing my novel Much Ado About Corona as an example of a myth-making narrative shaping the world of tomorrow...

The Importance of Fiction in Shaping Our Reality

You can watch it on YouTube, Tiktok, Instagram and X.

If you like it, please share it. Help promote the fiction you want to see in the world. Many thanks in advance.

—John C.A. Manley




John C. A. Manley is the author of Much Ado About Corona, All The Humans Are Sleeping and other works of philosophical fiction that are "so completely engaging that you find yourself alternately laughing, gasping, hanging on for dear life." Get free samples of his stories by becoming a Blazing Pine Cone email subscriber.