We feel a sense of illusion, because we are lacking in a state of mind or purpose.

我们之所以会产生一种虚幻之感，那是因为我们缺乏某种心境或者目标。

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You are coming out of your dreamlike state which has been put upon you, and into an unrealistic position of believing the illusion that you have been living.

你正在经历一个梦幻般的状态，这对于你一直生活的状态相比是那么的不切实际。

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Raging Balls talks about the complex relationships between increased global state control and security apparatuses, and the illusion that art can somehow protect us from this.

《愤怒的球》讲述的是在全球化背景下不断加强的国家控制与安全机制，以及艺术可以使我们免于这种控制的幻想之间的复杂关系。

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Without getting into the intrinsic value debate, this is where I strongly depart from Denninger, because if we accept the thesis that all money is a universal mass illusion, then a market-based illusion can be just as valid or more valid than a State-controlled illusion.

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If a free market illusion voluntarily agreed to from the bottom up is so desperately feared, then the protectors of the State-sanctioned illusion must not have the most benevolent of motives in store for us plebeians.

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While that may be a reason to acquire a certain amount of government fiat currency, it is a transitory value because in the end it is still based on a State-sanctioned illusion.

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