Our perceptions shape our reality. Fabricated in the present with an eye to the past, our perception projects itself into the future. In the current political climate we see this phenomenom played out on a grand scale and in real time. Most glaring are the examples of Brexit in the UK; Donald Trump in the US; and here in Germany the rise of the AFD. At the bottom of all three cases lies a deep fear that the future will not be as good as the past. This may or may not be true, but more importantly, which past are we talking about? It is of course the mythic past, a past that never existed.