Un-reality. (Photo by David Crane, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
1. What Was That?
Something happened last night. And everyone is calling it a “Republican party presidential debate.” But that’s not what it was.
It was a mass delusion. A large group of people simultaneously subscribing to an imaginary version of reality.
Let me explain.
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