Or do we want to wake up and thereby dampen and perhaps even extinguish these cycles altogether by inviting in an entirely different understanding of the dream itself, the root of the dis-ease, into our consciousness, and by finding ways to catalyze a healthier dynamic equilibrium that recognizes ways to check those more self-centered, greedy, and aversive impulses that drive so many of our actions as individuals, as well as those of our public institutions, and which, sooner or later, always seem to seduce us back to sleep? Or is it not a matter of either/or but of both together, because they are not actually two distinct…