Post by StormInateacup on Apr 30, 2012 6:26:59 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reality_tunnel
"a subconscious set of mental "filters" formed from their beliefs and experiences, every individual interprets the same world differently"
So a tribal person will experience a different world than a urban person. A shaman will experience a different world than a scientist or a young earth creationist. They each have their own "reality tunnel".
Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our perceptions are gambles. We believe what we see and then we believe our interpretation of it, we don't even know we are making an interpretation most of the time. We think this is reality. – Robert Anton Wilson
Its a refutation of naive realism (believing that the world we see really is the 'Real World').
Oh. Yeah I've always known that. I just didn't know there was a word for it.
That's why I travel. You have to live with people to know why they're like they are. You have to listen to them. You have to go there knowing you've got a fuckton to learn from them.
And no matter how different they seem from you. No matter how "underdeveloped" or "primitive" you might think their society is . No matter what problems you might have with the sexual politics or the social justice that operates in places like that, all I know is I met a lot more really dogshit dumb people in three piece Armani suits with yuppie apartments and European cars; with premium american express cards and Italian espresso machines than I ever met in a sarong or a turban with a cooking pot on a fire a goat tied up in the yard.
You know the intelligentsia in western societies might be clever as all get out, but the great mass of us have become so dependent on the other; the govt, the merchant, the employer to provide us with our daily needs - food, water, power, wages - that we really are just like a mob of children, squabbling in line while they are waiting to be told what to do.
In some societies people still know how to think for themselves. And to co-operate with one another.
Because if they don't they'll not survive.