If you wish to study a granfalloon, just remove the skin of a toy balloon.
A granfalloon, in the fictional religion of Bokononism (created by Kurt Vonnegut in his 1963 novel Cat’s Cradle), is defined as a “false karass” (imagined community). That is, it is a group of people who outwardly choose or claim to have a shared identity or purpose, but whose mutual association is actually meaningless.Wikipedia
For an elegant, witty stabbing of the granfalloon that is the Obama campaign, consider this, from Gerard Baker, the US Editor of The Times:
Every decade or so the people who control the way we see the world anoint some American politician the Redeemer of a Troubled Planet.
…it’s fairly clear now that, with the near-certain nomination by the Democrats of Barack Obama everything is in place for the media to indulge in one of the greatest, orgiastic media fiestas of hero-worship since Elvis Presley.
You will not see a finer example of the genre than the cover story of this week’s Newsweek, which was entitled