Delusion claims equal rights with truth because both involve imagination

Evidence

Because truth implies imagination, it can happen that distorted personalities take the truth for fantasy and the illusion for truth. The distorted individual draws on the element of imagination residing in truth by constantly seeking to expose it. Democratically, he insists on equal rights for his delusion because in fact truth too is not stringent. — Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer, Dialectic of Enlightenment, 153

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the culture-industry chapter’s account of how rigid schematization masquerades as clear-eyed realism — delusion and enlightenment share epistemic foundations. — connects to: Shared belief renders delusion indistinguishable from truth — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core: On the Role of…, 497; Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 152; Shared delusional claims persist because confirmation is socially rewarded — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 363 (+7 more)

Broader Connections

• Shared belief renders delusion indistinguishable from truth #expands (0.85) — Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, The Worm at the Core, 497
• Imagination gives way to a verification mechanism checking accuracy against reality. #contradicts (0.85)
• Imagination precedes and produces reality rather than reflecting it #expands (0.80) — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities, 152
• The supposed boundary between representation and reality dissolves because both sides are representation #expands (0.78) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 37
• Acting as if a belief were true produces the same actions as actual truth #expands (0.75)
• Western philosophy’s equating of imagination with fantasy delegitimizes it as irrational #responds-to (0.75)
• Pretended sociable equality is art-like play, not a lie, until reality intrudes #expands (0.75) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 378
• Rejecting all appearance as false illusion leads to losing truth itself #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 552
• Shared delusional claims persist because confirmation is socially rewarded #qualifies (0.72) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 363