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  • Surrogate experience and surrogate environments have become the American way of life. Distinctions are no longer made, or deemed necessary, between the real and the false; the edge usually goes to the latter, as an improved version with defects corrected - accessible and user-friendly.

    "The Pasteboard Past" by Witold Rybczynski, www.nytimes.com. April 6, 1997.