We in the U.S. are living in a world of illusion, where the cost of continuing with our lifestyles is escalating rapidly.
The ancient battle, Gandalf believes, is not over, but temporarily dormant, like the illusion of peace between World War I (in which Tolkien served) and World War II (during which the Lord of the Rings was written).
In this current economic environment, governments seek a condition of perpetual inflation in order to maintain the illusion of prosperity in the developed world.
Maybe they offer an illusion of permanence and continuity in a world characterized mainly by mobility, change, and uncertainty.
There's a whole world of sort of fantasy and illusion out there that makes dating full of lies to begin with and probably even more so when you're online, and I think people kind of like it that way.
That lets the Meta 1 track your gestures, individual fingers and walls or other physical surfaces, all of which are processed in the PC with motion tracking tech to give the illusion of virtual objects anchored to the real world.
Satirists think they can change the world, and that's an illusion.
It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.
You know, David, I don't think any of us were under the illusion that, again, having been off the world stage for so long, in dealing with this issue and in understanding what it was going to take to get developing nations of the world at the table that all these issues might be neatly wrapped up by December of this year.
Nolan created a world in which other superheroes do not exist, where the illusion of realism is important and keeps things grounded in ways that do not involve aliens and magic.
Rather than the illusion of control that cabinets of curiosities offered centuries ago by facilitating an encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world, the dreamlike microcosm in "Ghosts in the Machine" anticipates a dematerialized digital culture.
WSJ: Ghosts in the Machine | New Museum | Beyond Human | By Kristin M. Jones
Yet after four decades of growing interdependence, the world is just now becoming as economically integrated as it was when Norman Angell wrote The Great Illusion.
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