We're Living a Collective Dream

"You see," the Director resumed, "we're living in a sort of collective dream, and right now, we're sleepwalking towards a cliff edge. It’s as if we've been given sleeping pills, but, spoiler alert, we’ve been only too happy to swallow them. Aldous Huxley had a similar idea in Brave New World; he called his sleeping pills Soma."

"In this collective dream, we're driving new cars and flying first class to exotic destinations, while our kids happily play in our well-kept gardens, and we tell our friends how successful we are. But it isn't real. It's just a dream we keep repeating in our heads. And it’s all reinforced by the algorithms used by the global tech companies to keep us sedated. We’re slaves to their algorithms."

"Slaves to the algorithm?" George paused. "Wasn’t that Grace Jones?"

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