Overlapping Realities
Copyright 2019 - 2020 Don Ray
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The seductions of this carnal world leave us all living a dream, overlapping individual dreams perhaps, but being dreams they are not grounded in a shared objective reality and inevitably come into conflict.
Lacking grounding in shared physical reality our fantasies and wishes and imagination, whether about football teams or religions or political positions, grow and fester in arbitrary directions, turning into beliefs no less trenchantly held than any repeatable experience of physical reality.
Of course our internally created, arbitrary, personal realities lead to conflict! The person cheering the other team or nation or political party or religion or ethnic group has also contrived their own beliefs from dreams and fantasies and wishes.
We live in a madness sustained by the other fans, citizens, party members, church members, and ethnic member who share our madness.
Objective Reality could dissipate the madness, but we no longer live in an objective world of earth and stone and water. Our screens and scrolling text amplify our madness, until conflict with those dwelling in a different madness leads to mutual destruction of the illusions.
Reality awaits our return from the madness, as it always has, perhaps hoping our delusional individual "realities" will not crash down as violently this time as they always have in the past.
Websites tend to evaporate into the digital ether. Feel free to print and share this page.
Copyright 2019 - 2020 Don Ray
Copyright 2019 - 2020 Don Ray
Websites tend to evaporate into the digital ether. Feel free to print ans share this page.
The seductions of this carnal world leave us all living a dream, overlapping individual dreams perhaps, but being dreams they are not grounded in a shared objective reality and inevitably come into conflict.
Lacking grounding in shared physical reality our fantasies and wishes and imagination, whether about football teams or religions or political positions, grow and fester in arbitrary directions, turning into beliefs no less trenchantly held than any repeatable experience of physical reality.
Of course our internally created, arbitrary, personal realities lead to conflict! The person cheering the other team or nation or political party or religion or ethnic group has also contrived their own beliefs from dreams and fantasies and wishes.
We live in a madness sustained by the other fans, citizens, party members, church members, and ethnic member who share our madness.
Objective Reality could dissipate the madness, but we no longer live in an objective world of earth and stone and water. Our screens and scrolling text amplify our madness, until conflict with those dwelling in a different madness leads to mutual destruction of the illusions.
Reality awaits our return from the madness, as it always has, perhaps hoping our delusional individual "realities" will not crash down as violently this time as they always have in the past.
Websites tend to evaporate into the digital ether. Feel free to print and share this page.
Copyright 2019 - 2020 Don Ray