2020-11-22
Aptly subtitled "Playing with Reality" I found this a fascinating article that digs deeply into how we perceive the world in which we live, how we make sense of it, how perhaps the "powers that be" or indeed the "powers that would be" in the world might manipulate our perceptions, and whether they may be doing this for the benefit or the (insert your alternate here) of the world.
Indeed, we might justifiably be pretty uncertain these days even as to who those "powers that be" actually are.
Fascinating stuff, which for me underlines the extreme difficulty that faces us in making sense of the fire-hose of second/third/fourth-hand information which is now daily available to us from a multiplicity of sources.
Here in lock-down UK we cannot "know" what is going on in the USA, or at the UN, or at the WEF, or mostly anywhere else, but we must choose to put our faith in some composite version of reality, sewn together from our selected patchwork of information sources, in which black and white are all to rare and shades of grey are all too abundant.
If we wish to avoid the "paralysis of analysis" (as we must if we want to get anything done) then we must put some faith into our acknowledgedly dodgy understanding of our world.
The key word here is indeed "faith".
Faith that we might have the significant basics right, hope that we don't have something critical seriously wrong, and sufficient doubt and diligence to enable us to review and revise as new information becomes available (or old information more prominent).
For those of us unfamiliar with "Q", he is an unidentified source of enigmatic postings on an internet board, providing snippets of information for "conspiracy theorists" to make sense of. He is separate from the "Anons" (supposedly those who self-select from the latter theorists) who attempt to interpret Q's posts and inform us as to meaning.
But the truth is that our information is posted via multiple sources both official and unofficial every day and we must make the best of it that we can - Q and the Anons are simply a specific microcosm in the great information deluge that assails us.
