This nascent essay needs work, but it's a decent blog post.
The essay could take a few directions.
E.g., Fantasy role-playing is fun, but now take your character into the real world. You're Kick-Ass, coming to beat that inner-city thug, only to find yourself on the cusp of getting throttled by him and his gang because, well, you're not a superhero. You're a white suburbanite who can't hang with hardened criminals from the hood. You're LARPing at playing a superhero, and you better leave that superhero where he belongs: in the fictional, play regions of your mind.
E.g., Thomas Sowell might be the best living public intellectual who adamantly refuses to let abstract ideals beat reality. (I've been working on a Sowell-Hemisphere essay for a year now . . . just so much to condense/capture . . . some day, some day.)
