POEME:: 4AwfulTruths: Realities/Stories

4AwfulTruths: Realities/Stories

You disagree with me.
I disagree with him.
He disagrees with her.
She disagrees with them.
They disagree with everyone.

They fight them.  They kill them.  They exterminate them.

Or wish to.

Why?

Isn't the World, the Universe
an Objective Reality?  No matter who I am,
I will still get an electric shock,
get washed away in a tsunami, get cut in half under a train,
if another human will, in the exact same situation.
Yet, men cut men in half
over religion, politics,
and a host of other bullshit.
Why?

Simple.

Because despite our bodies
living in an Objective World,
our hearts and minds
live in a Fictive world.
A world made of fiction.
Stories.  Imagined reality.  Subjective truth.

Each of us has our own stories.
Not deliberate lies.
Not mean-minded fabrications.
Only passionately-lived unrealities,
which are all too real for us.
Homo sapiens is a self-delusional species.
And so, because these stories gave us
our unparalleled power.  These stories are
our greatest strength.
And our greatest weakness.

We achieve because of them.
We get our drive because of them.
We strive because of them.
We survive because of them.
We thrive because of them.
We are today alive because of them. 

And tomorrow, we will die because of them.

Why?
Because we are now
far too powerful.
It is fine for a weakling
to live in an imaginary world.  All he hurts is himself.
But one whose writ runs on entities
other than himself
hurts all others when he
forces down decisions based on unreality.
Which is what
every Subjective reality is.

The only right way to live
is to be aware of one's stories;
of one's Subjective realities,
and keep them a level below
the Objective reality.  For only then does
the Universe back us
in our endeavours.
Those who prioritize their Subjective reality
over the objective one
are a threat to themselves
and to the World!

Further,
when the interests of two power centers clash,
unless they are both
based on Objective reality,
or on the exact same Subjective reality,
which almost never happens,
they fight.  And thus,
there is 'Collateral Damage'.
The greater their power, the greater the damage.

We, Homo sapiens
are on course to create
a lot more havoc, than what we are already guilty of.
Perhaps,
we are the secret agents of destruction,
created by greater powers that seek
the destruction of all
that we have ever held dear,
in order to create a new world.

Or, perhaps,
our universe is a mere video game
of a god-kid, who is trashing this play
since his mom wants him at the dinner table, forthwith.

In any case, it does not matter.
A human-driven cataclysm is written on the wall.
Nothing I,
or you, dear reader can do, will ever change it.
Humankind is doomed.
As is the Bountiful Earth,
what we have always known her to be.
That is my story.
I fervently hope
it does not turn out to be the Objective reality.

Epilogue:
The Real reality,
of course, being the
un-mind-mediated reality,
shall always remain the Known unknown.
And then,
there is the matter
of the Unknown unknown(s).

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