Awake

A Fairy Tale

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Freedom is Slavery
— George Orwell

More is Beauty
— Thomas Boyer, Jr.

When Thomas Boyer, Jr., the richest and most powerful man in all the land, detected that public consumption in all provinces had leveled out and showed no signs of breaking through what appeared a consumption ceiling, he sponsored a study to find out why. In…