Optical System

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“People who have realized that this is a dream imagine that it is easy to wake up, and are angry with those who continue sleeping, not considering that the whole world that environs them does not permit them to wake. Life proceeds as a series of optical illusions, artificial needs and imaginary sensations.”
—Alexander Herzen (1812–1870)

“... in America ... children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.”
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