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I don%u2019t believe we are real, nor our lives! We are caught, voluntarily or not, inside an entertainment device of extraordinary sophistication. Why? There could be many reasons. Maybe it%u2019s the future, and failing to get off the planet, we live in a bleak resource-barren world. Our technology remains, and we sleep out our lives connected to it rather than live the depressive reality. Or maybe we are all criminals in some future prison, where our punishment is x years plugged into all-immersive reality machines; or maybe we are a colony crossing star systems and galaxies in a gigantic ship looking for a new home%u2014we sleep in suspended animation and our minds are hooked to reality machines to prevent mental entropy? Do you really believe the life you lead is real? Let me put some cracks into your reality! According to scientists, we have evolved on earth, when everyone knows the flipping planet was a seething mass of super-heated gas once%u2014effectively sterilising everything with its intense heat. During the second world war, London, Dresden, Hiroshima, were bombed and destroyed on a scale 1000x the destruction of the twin towers in the USA. It took 2 years to clear the rubble of the twin towers, yet within a few years of the end of the second world war, all the rubble had gone. And yet, no film or book or documentary has ever been made to expose this remarkable (and impossible) feat of human endeavour. Why? Because it never really happened. Electric Pylons carry thousands and thousands of miles of electric cable across every country on the planet. Electricity: our life blood. But have you ever met anyone who has seen swathes of this network going up. Have you seen it? How do the engineers get those great expanses of cables between the pylons, over houses and entire housing estates? Let me tell you... they don%u2019t! What you see is a construction in your own mind, put there by the machines just outside of your perceived space. 161