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Everything is Fake

The American Mind

CHAPTER

Prescription Drugs - The Big Selling Point for This Parallel Universe

"Make a mistake if we expect that the big selling point for this parallel universe is that it will be just like the one people are trying to escape so intently," says John Lennon. "It's almost as if people are willing to heighten what is notionally a kind of pharmacological pleasure to point of displeasure, to a point of of perhaps even pain, just in order to block out so much of given life", he adds. 'That's a long way from imagine,' lennon tells his friend and fellow musician Elton John.

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