Requiem for the Unreal Real World by Christopher Deliso

At bottom, this growing unreality of the "real world" – that is, the U.S.-led Western world of technological leadership and consumer comfort – owes just as much to the bona fide insanity of the neocons now running the show as it does to political face-saving. The now infamous quote provided to Ron Suskind by one White House official, that the U.S. "creates its own reality" as it lumbers along, cuts to the very heart of the problem.