Namaste and welcome my friends, family, and fellow knowledge seekers to another edition of the Quiet Mouse Strikes Back. Thank you for taking time out of your busy day. I'm gonna try to make this short today because it's really a pretty plain and dry subject.
It must be very self-gratifying to label others as being different than your own self. What you think is happening is that society or "people" are the problem and it's EVERYONE ELSE that is to blame than your own self. What we are really doing is creating fantasy worlds inside our own heads... because quite simply, an imaginary world where you don't have to deal with truth is probably preferable to the harshness of reality. Prejudice, bigotry, greed, vanity, envy, lust, and selfishness runs through every culture, ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation, or geographical location.
We ALL have to fight with our own inner demons. We ALL know this to be true. Somehow, however, we are able to make a cognitive disconnection with our fellow brothers and sisters, convinced that the world cares so much about us that it is deliberately set out to take us down. We externalize the INTERNAL battle that rages within all of us. Like most things in life, there IS indeed a bell curve where there are extremes as well as "norms". At one extreme end are the fruitcakes and nut jobs that cannot discern their fantasy with reality. These people are institutionalized for the sake of others in society who do not want to see past their own fantasy world. On the opposite extreme are those left-brain dominated logic thumpers that have little to no imagination, but focus on what is tangible rather than the ethereal dream of what life coulda, woulda, shoulda been like...
(I think most of my readers would...)
Perception is indeed 9/10ths of reality. What's crazy is that we could ask the same 10, 100, or 1,000 people about the EXACT same thing and lo and behold you will get about that many answers back because we ALL have our OWN subjective version of what we call "reality".
"What is normal for a spider is chaos for the fly." So says an old Chinese proverb.
As said before the fantasy "reality" is preferable to the truth. It causes genuine pain in most people to see the horrors and shocking truths of the world. This is why they CHOOSE to live in a fantasy. Television is GREAT at helping people live in a false bubble of alternate-reality. It's all a CHOICE! That's it. The blind majority CHOOSES to turn the channel, or ignore it completely. Some just scroll past the link or post on the Internet/ social media. Choosing to ignore reality is that individuals own damn fault, yet the same person will get offended, irritable, and agitated when asked pointed questions or posed with FACTS that destroy the illusion of the lies we tell ourselves.
Why?!?
The simple answer is that in a world that is so fake and manipulated with control it is very difficult to know what is real. Charisma and confidence will lead many to believe nearly ANYTHING, especially if it's shown on television. Also, the lie is easier to believe, it's blunt around the edges and takes the sting off of things, kinda like a Xanax. The TRUTH HURTS!!
Why?!?
Because people don't want to believe the government is bad. People don't want to believe their religion is wrong. People don't want to admit they are poor parents. Etc. Etc. Etc. Add ANYTHING you want to this list...
Why?!?
Because it is a painfully difficult task to look the man or woman in the mirror and make a REAL change. Because if we ADMIT that our fantasies are just that it is a REFLECTION OF SELF in these things that are fucked up with the world. Truly if we can SEE, ACKNOWLEDGE, AND UNDERSTAND what's going on around us... it is indeed a REFLECTION OF SELF. We can ONLY see through our two eyes, in others, the things we see in ourselves. What we really see if we look closely, is that there isn't really that much difference between us all. All the castles and parapets we've built to protect our own fragile egos will eventually all come crashing down. Reality never stops, even when we choose to ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, drowning in vice and debauchery.
Me, personally... I'm NEVER going to stop telling my perception of reality to others. I DO see in society the things I have seen in myself, experienced firsthand, or have a sufficient knowledge to insightfully have a good clue what will happen based upon certain variables that are within my own grasp to ponder. I am CHOOSING to see reality. I'm not looking away. My eyes and mind are WIDE OPEN. I'm CHOOSING to be happy regardless. Telling the truth is NOT negative, only the ignorant perceive it as being so.
It must be very self-gratifying to label others as being different than your own self. What you think is happening is that society or "people" are the problem and it's EVERYONE ELSE that is to blame than your own self. What we are really doing is creating fantasy worlds inside our own heads... because quite simply, an imaginary world where you don't have to deal with truth is probably preferable to the harshness of reality. Prejudice, bigotry, greed, vanity, envy, lust, and selfishness runs through every culture, ethnic group, gender, sexual orientation, or geographical location.
We ALL have to fight with our own inner demons. We ALL know this to be true. Somehow, however, we are able to make a cognitive disconnection with our fellow brothers and sisters, convinced that the world cares so much about us that it is deliberately set out to take us down. We externalize the INTERNAL battle that rages within all of us. Like most things in life, there IS indeed a bell curve where there are extremes as well as "norms". At one extreme end are the fruitcakes and nut jobs that cannot discern their fantasy with reality. These people are institutionalized for the sake of others in society who do not want to see past their own fantasy world. On the opposite extreme are those left-brain dominated logic thumpers that have little to no imagination, but focus on what is tangible rather than the ethereal dream of what life coulda, woulda, shoulda been like...
Perception is indeed 9/10ths of reality. What's crazy is that we could ask the same 10, 100, or 1,000 people about the EXACT same thing and lo and behold you will get about that many answers back because we ALL have our OWN subjective version of what we call "reality".
"What is normal for a spider is chaos for the fly." So says an old Chinese proverb.
As said before the fantasy "reality" is preferable to the truth. It causes genuine pain in most people to see the horrors and shocking truths of the world. This is why they CHOOSE to live in a fantasy. Television is GREAT at helping people live in a false bubble of alternate-reality. It's all a CHOICE! That's it. The blind majority CHOOSES to turn the channel, or ignore it completely. Some just scroll past the link or post on the Internet/ social media. Choosing to ignore reality is that individuals own damn fault, yet the same person will get offended, irritable, and agitated when asked pointed questions or posed with FACTS that destroy the illusion of the lies we tell ourselves.
Why?!?
The simple answer is that in a world that is so fake and manipulated with control it is very difficult to know what is real. Charisma and confidence will lead many to believe nearly ANYTHING, especially if it's shown on television. Also, the lie is easier to believe, it's blunt around the edges and takes the sting off of things, kinda like a Xanax. The TRUTH HURTS!!
Why?!?
Because people don't want to believe the government is bad. People don't want to believe their religion is wrong. People don't want to admit they are poor parents. Etc. Etc. Etc. Add ANYTHING you want to this list...
Why?!?
Because it is a painfully difficult task to look the man or woman in the mirror and make a REAL change. Because if we ADMIT that our fantasies are just that it is a REFLECTION OF SELF in these things that are fucked up with the world. Truly if we can SEE, ACKNOWLEDGE, AND UNDERSTAND what's going on around us... it is indeed a REFLECTION OF SELF. We can ONLY see through our two eyes, in others, the things we see in ourselves. What we really see if we look closely, is that there isn't really that much difference between us all. All the castles and parapets we've built to protect our own fragile egos will eventually all come crashing down. Reality never stops, even when we choose to ignore it or pretend it doesn't exist, drowning in vice and debauchery.
Me, personally... I'm NEVER going to stop telling my perception of reality to others. I DO see in society the things I have seen in myself, experienced firsthand, or have a sufficient knowledge to insightfully have a good clue what will happen based upon certain variables that are within my own grasp to ponder. I am CHOOSING to see reality. I'm not looking away. My eyes and mind are WIDE OPEN. I'm CHOOSING to be happy regardless. Telling the truth is NOT negative, only the ignorant perceive it as being so.
