Only one way out is there for the taking: basic counter-reality.
This scrubbing-out was understood to be a pathetic story about a fringe sector taking ridiculous measures to try to preserve its counter-reality.
As Israel celebrates the 60th anniversary of its establishment, an inescapable counter-reality lingers over the occasion that is inextricably twinned with it.
Whereas just a short time ago we had hoped, to quote the German poet Hölderlin, that "Where there is danger, salvation grows too", now a new counter-reality is appearing on the horizon: where there is salvation, danger grows too.
The theme, as she explains in her "artist statement", is "the dream of pure freedom" and the need to "create a counter-reality in order to challenge organised evil".
Fascism entices weak, twisted, and desperate souls to accept a counter-reality where their darkest fears and impulses are countenanced and applauded.
Politics have been dominated by a minority movement that creates its own counter-reality, rejects science, denies established facts, and produces untruthful narratives to justify behavior at odds with reality.
It's a pernicious trope that runs counter to reality.
Tagliabue countered, "The reality is one-third of all coaches are African-American and a growing number of coordinators are African-American".
George McLoof, whose Longstreet Development Company has also been active in the historic district, said the city's image as a tired mill town long past its prime was countered by reality.
The GE plant is one of a number of facilities around the country producing new technologies for rapidly growing markets in advanced batteries, electric vehicles, and solar power but those efforts cannot counter the reality that the U.S. manufacturing sector is in trouble.
