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While the richest 1% have never had it so good, what is the reality for the working class?

60% of our people are living paycheck to paycheck.
57% of our people cannot afford a $1,000 emergency.
41% of our people are rent-burdened.

We need an economy that works for all.

— Bernie Sanders
January 30, 2023
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We are living in a culture entirely hypnotized by the illusion of time, in which the so-called present moment is felt as nothing but an infinitesimal hairline between a causative past and an absorbingly important future. We have no present. Our consciousness is almost completely preoccupied with memory and expectation. We do not realize that there never was, is, nor will be any other experience than present experience. We are therefore out of touch with reality.

— Alan Watts
October 2, 2019
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

— Edgar Allan Poe 
January 22, 2017
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Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormal social behavior and failure to understand what is real. Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, hearing voices that others do not, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and a lack of motivation. People with schizophrenia often have additional mental health problems such as anxiety disorders, major depressive illness, or substance use disorders. Symptoms typically come on gradually, begin in young adulthood, and last a long time.

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January 15, 2017
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People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I’ve learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one’s reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one’s master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person’s view requires to be faked…The man who lies to the world, is the world’s slave from then on…There are no white lies, there is only the blackest of destruction, and a white lie is the blackest of all.

— Ayn Rand
November 20, 2016
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The world doesn’t need an artist who shows reality as it is.

— Marina Abramovic
July 17, 2016
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Dhammapada Verse Two: Happiness Follows a Pure Mind
 

     
    
         
            

April 20, 2015
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