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**DELUSION** is the darker side of IMAGINE. We’re prone to playing it when the existing social and conceptual order uses outright mockery or outright ignoring of the compelling possibilities we imagine. Instead of employing BET or FORGE to work them out, we double down on our unprovable vision and increasingly reframe all pushback as a vast conspiracy, the critics as evil, and those who don’t “get it” as sheep.

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