{"id":140,"date":"2010-07-01T19:23:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T19:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/07\/reality-its-how-to-make-a-buck\/"},"modified":"2010-07-01T19:23:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-01T19:23:00","slug":"reality-its-how-to-make-a-buck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/americanbuddhist\/2010\/07\/reality-its-how-to-make-a-buck.html","title":{"rendered":"Reality! 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It\u2019s damned good. And it\u2019s damned <a href='https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/library\/buddhism' target='_blank'>Buddhist<\/a>. As he, Jesse Schell, points out, \u201cwe live in a bubble of fake bullshit. And we hunger to get to anything that\u2019s real. Even if the best we can do is a Starbucks mocha with <i>real<\/i>\u00a0swiss chocolate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s frightening, but painfully true.<\/p>\n<p>Amazingly, many of the \u2018out there\u2019 scenarios of futuristic movies in the 80s and 90s are becoming the world we live in. Is this good? Where does it stop? Jesse ends with a hopeful anecdote about becoming better people; but it\u2019s weak in my opinion. 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