And relates well to some insights from both Red Plenty and Europe Central re. the psychological effects of having lived-through [and beyond..]
the Massive/Instant! -upheaval which was: Lenin et al's massively unorganized response to the fact of Tsaricide.. with no more actual Planning than ...
... the Cheney Shogunate's permanent clusterfuck of Iraq--from start to today's UnFinished.

Particularly apt your comparo with the, er Narnia appeal, I wot. Pulling childhood-bathos emotional strings appears to be sometimes as invisible to an author
as to the willing consumers of simplicity in an obviously polar-Opposite World, in which all dwell.
(How's Come 'they' don't teach this stuff!?/warn about naïvete and its psyche-retardation ... early-on: say, ~ age 13?)

Meanwhile.. a Hobbit's enviro may be a suitable replacement for Blobjectivism: they live in earth-covered comfy little nests.
Perfect! in a world in which Nukes still prowl within the aberrant-grey-cells of ... other sorts of megalomaniacs than ..the simple-minded Aynish.

Adulthood.. is it vanishing, helped along by such dastards as the Koch Brothers and all who sail in her?
(But they aren't smart enough to orchestrate on That Scale--are they?)


:-) :-/