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Losing Yourself in Fantasy

To The Best Of Our Knowledge

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The Rise and Fall of the Internet and the Rise of the Alternative Reality

He and they, the establishment Republicans at the time, he worked for George W Bush, of course, were feeling as though that they had cracked the code to understand that they could create a reality. So do you think that was because the internet had come onto the scene that I'm still trying to figure out why that became a viable political strategy? It seemed like 20 years before that, people would have been, I think, laughed at if they just sort of tried to create this whole alternative fact and that's right, kind of politics. Again, it's not just the internet, but the anti-establishment feeling and cultural explosion of the late 1960s and 70s was a huge part

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