Never underestimate the power of delusion to pervade all facets of your life. Never forget that the person sitting next to you on the bus or standing in front of you in line or just occupying the same space may be living in a world you can’t reconcile with any objective reality. They are everywhere, but we don’t think of them as crazy in the clinical sense of the word. Instead, we choose to engage with them as intellectual equals with a different set of beliefs. But does that make sense?
I’ve seen people talk at length, with perfectly straight faces, about complete nonsense they’ve arrived at with the help of nothing more than an unreliable media ecosystem and their own flawed intuition, shaped by cultural and geographical forces beyond their control. It’s common in the political arena, but extends to all other parts of society. There are smart parrots in the world who will learn to mimic their owner and verbalize a few human words. They of course have no idea what they are saying. They just know how to replicate the sounds. We see the same phenomenon everywhere, discourses and phrases copied from unseen arbiters of acceptable language that promulgates our reality.
We are blessed with an abundance of real experts on every subject and sub-subject imaginable. The problem is nobody has the time, patience, or confidence to admit that someone else knows something that they don’t or their long-term experience in an area makes them less informed than someone else. The loudest voices usually have the least important things to say. They certainly have the least trustworthy and worthwhile information. And so it goes…
GLAZ 