While Bettelheim tells us that fairy tales help us adjust, Jack Zipes has said the opposite: that the value of fairy tales is that they teach us not to adjust, because the oppressive society in which we live is something weshouldrefuse to adjust to.
Weshouldnot wait until our enemies glean enough insight into our capabilities to thwart us, until our key partners refuse to work with us, or perhaps currently inconceivable, until the child of a covered operative is taken hostage.