Get real!

You hear it all the time, but what is “real?”

“Real” is a human idea, as are all ideas. Ideas on the nature of reality have evolved with our bodies, brains, and social psyches. And just as all life continues to evolve or go extinct, our ideas of “reality” also continue to evolve.

Currently, there are (always have been, and probably always will be) those who cling to the past out of fear (fear of change, for a multitude of reasons – rationalizations, usually for loss of power or property). They are the ones who continually drag humanity and understanding back three steps for every four we take forward in understanding and cooperative civilization.

It’s usually only a few, who having established themselves in power, who fear change the most (sociopaths and psychopaths, all). They stoke that fear in any who will listen–usually followers and the less intelligent, and usually succeed in slowing down progress to our potentials. They are the ones who always counsel for exceedingly slow, gradual progress to more freedom and equality for all. They hate real democracy, preferring monarchies, dictatorships, authoritarian, top-down rule, very often theocratic. The best way to dictate thought, speech, and ideas… reality.

Nietzsche suggested that current views of reality are a function of power, not “truth.” The evolution of ideas is stifled and controlled by established powers, the fearful, the socio and psychopaths, those who currently run our world, with greed and deceit.

Fortunately for us, you can’t stop evolution. The only problem is that evolution is slow, and at the rate our owners are destroying our home, we may not have enough time to evolve sufficiently before extinction… So, not enough time for Evolution; we need Revolution NOW! That’s getting Real.

–LE