Rationalism, as a totalizing worldview, leaves us impoverished—unable to recognize value, beauty, or the sacred. When everything must justify itself by proof or profit, we blind ourselves to realities that defy such accounting. The numinous doesn’t submit to cost–benefit analysis; awe cannot be quantified. Late capitalism packages feeling, reducing wonder to content—and its prevailing realism reflects this same impoverishment. That the market overflows with “fantasy” only clarifies the loss: what once named a mode of vision has become another genre of consumption. True enchantment—the kind that unsettles and illuminates—has become scarce.more