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I'm Clyde Lewis, and this is Ground Zero.

The number is called tonight 5-0-3-225-0-860-5-0-3-225-0-860.

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I have to admit that for the past few days, I have been saying up really late,

doing a lot of studying, doing a lot of reading, and then I wake up.

I do the same thing, I wake up every day, and the reason why is because I've just been noticing that

the news is finding itself in repeat, and it's kind of a repeat or repetition of nightmare.

And every story seems to run into the other, and it's fear porn, literally.

And I try to find different ways to analyze and report these things, and some of these things

I've already reported. Some of these things that are happening now in the world, I said,

this is going to happen in its building itself, and building itself, and building itself.

So I tried to find something that would describe what we're in the middle of right now,

this nightmare we're in the middle of, and I found Norman Brown, he died in 2002.

He was a scholar, a writer, a social philosopher, and he described nightmares.

He described this nightmare, or the nightmare that well describes our stage in our dreams,

the dream we're living now, the dream that was supposed to be the American dream,

and somehow it got lost somewhere. And now we're in the middle of this dark dream sequence,

where we worry about World War III, we worry about nuclear holocaust, we worry about a number of things.

We worry about starving to death. I mean, there's so many things going on right now in people's minds,

living paycheck to paycheck, some losing their jobs, some losing their livelihood.

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