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40: Introducing The Portal Essay Club - What if everyone is simply insane?

The Portal

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The Difference Between Being Fully Committed to It and Simply Thinking It's True

Kostler: We live in a society of the Jekyll and Hyde pattern magnified into gigantic proportions. He says there's a difference between being fully committed to it and simply thinking it's true. When Dick Gregory found out that the FBI was considering having him killed by La Cosa Nostra or Italian organized crime he said I always knew they were trying to kill me but I didn't know they were Trying to kill me. Kostler: This is somebody writing from the tail end of World War II showing us that in fact people were losing their lives without a sense of what it was they were involved in.

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