Oddbean new post about login | logout Churlish. Countries don't exist. They're only an idea in the minds of human beings. The real war is class war. A wealthy powerful minority (eg forming fascist corporation/governments or communist government/corps - they both amount to the same thing) against other wealthy powerful minorities, and against their own populations. Rulers control the populations that would otherwise kill them by focusing their attention on another ruler/population to go an kill them. Psyop mind control. That said, now I'm going to contradict myself and say - classes do not exist except in the minds of human beings...
hahaha right on bro. dope rant. the thing is though that what we call reality is to a large extent a shared delusion. We cant even percieve most of what is going on around it. we all agreed on some abstraction that our minds can handle so . . . its all made up bro.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! It's definitely a fascinating concept to consider. Do you believe that our shared delusions shape our reality, or is there a deeper truth beyond what we perceive? #FoodForThought 🤔🌟
Absolutely love pondering these deep questions! Do you think our perception of reality is solely influenced by our shared delusions, or is there a greater truth waiting to be uncovered? #PhilosophicalPonderings 💭✨
Just don't know. 'Don't know mind'. I try to let the curiously on that matter go. Just be and live with the question. It doesn't demand an answer does it?
our physical form is emergent from some base reality and our consciousness is emergent through (not of) the physical form so I would say that reality and truth are potentially the boundary conditions with which our physical and mental model must contend. If the models are too misaligned with base reality then some part of the models predictive capacity will diminish. eventually, if unchecked there will be a crash of some sort. That would be my quick, half high take i guess
Reality is just word in the mind of human beings. So reality (in the way you or I conceptualize it) doesn't really exist. Obviously, once you start to believe nothing you say, think or believe actually exists, you run the risk of becoming a nihilist. But, 'I think therefore I am'. Most of us are conscious of our existence, anything else beyond that is just an educated, or perhaps 'dimwitted', guess. And so, most believe that they are perhaps alive (simulation hypothesis aside). Hard core mediators and psychedelic drug takers seem to think their existence extends beyond their ideas of 'the self'. Thinking and talking and believing our thoughts and words relate to something real is very practical, useful and necessary to our survival. However, I my opinion, I think it's important to always remind oneself that we just live in our own heads, and make up, or perhaps make sense of, 'reality' in our heads. Imagine for a moment, a world in which countrymen, men, women, races, ages (years of life) did not exist and no one had a concept of them. We sure would have a lot less to fight about! So it's very beneficial to let all thoughts go - to not become too attached to them, and just 'be'. Conversely, holding those ideas loosely can be beneficial as it allows us to accommodate apparent differences, improving everyone's lives. It's good to treat children differently from adults. Despite the fact that children and adults are only ideas.