Nobody understood The Reoccurring Dream, but after September 11, when we were coerced to do a national duty and go out and shop, surely people could begin to see what I was getting at.

In the unrest of the masses I augur great good. It is by their realizing that their condition of life is not what it ought to be that vast improvements may be accomplished.

Mrs. Wiggins didn’t agree. “He wouldn’t tell those stories to the Beans,” she said. “No, sir, he thinks animals are stupid. Dumb animals—that’s what most people call us. He thinks we’ll believe anything.

Human inertia makes the everyday environment, the furniture, as it were, appear to be a given.

Written By Todd Gitlin

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