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

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The Limits of Awareness

We live in a society of the Jekyll and Hyde pattern magnified into gigantic proportions. Not even during the spectacular decay of Roman Byzantium was split thinking so palpably evident. Such a uniform mass disease never did human psychology reach such a height of phoniness. Our awareness seems to shrink in direct ratio as communications expand. And we walk about as prisoners, each in his own private portable cage. For as long as there are people on the road and victims in the thicket divided by dream barriers, this will remain a phony civilization.

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