{"id":3242,"date":"2018-06-12T08:33:13","date_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/?p=3242"},"modified":"2018-06-12T08:33:13","modified_gmt":"2018-06-12T12:33:13","slug":"the-zman-compares-the-reality-gap-in-the-soviet-union-with-todays-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orionscoldfire.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/12\/the-zman-compares-the-reality-gap-in-the-soviet-union-with-todays-america\/","title":{"rendered":"The ZMan Compares the Reality Gap in the Soviet Union with Today&#8217;s America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>I like his final analogy of a supersaturated solution crashing out.\u00a0 Must be the nerd in me.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All that said, it seems that a society can tolerate only so large a gap between reality and its official truth. Whether or not we are reaching some sort of breaking point is probably impossible to know. A year ago, no one imagined the North Koreans offering to make peace. Before the collapse of the Soviet Union, no one saw it coming. Maybe people just get used to the disconnect until one day, the number of people who notice it reaches a critical mass. 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