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

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The Nightmare That Is a Reality

Arthur Costler's essay was published in The New York Times on January 9th, 1944. In it he describes a recurring dream where he is being murdered and no one hears him scream for help. He believes that this type of dream expresses the individual's ultimate loneliness when faced with death and cosmic violence. It may also be at the root of the ineffectiveness of our atrocity propaganda to stop Nazi atrocities according to Costler.

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