The Reality War.

The world is not as it seems. Certainly not for me, but I am becoming brave enough to say this more assertively.

Most of us are caught in a literal magic spell. Literally. For realsies, yo. It’s just that people have a disagreement about what “magic” is.

We are blind to the real problems facing us — an inability to reconcile thousands upon thousands of years of history, ideology, science and philosophy (aka religion) in a very short period of time, geologically speaking.

We are all biased towards the complex networks of systems we adopt and change over the course of our life, beginning with the doctrine taught by our parents. (worldview.)

From the moment we learn the definition of words as a child, complex metaphors are created for how we experience the world.

We experience the world in predictable patterns, but there is a catch — those patterns look different depending on your perspective, just like a sculpture looks different when viewed from the side vs. the front.

Some of these perspectives can be effective changed or understood, but some of them are nearly fundamental to the thing we’d call our soul — “who we are” — the bedrocks upon which we build our psyches.

Sometimes we rebel and rebuild these fundamentalisms, and other times we simply adopt the way we were taught things by our parents and see no need to change.

In 2016, we are facing a monumental problem unique to our species at this moment in human civilization, and most of us can’t see it, and most of those who can throw their hands up and say “we’re powerless to change it.”

I don’t agree with those people. I think we can point at this very difficult problem and try to fix it with words before it comes to violence — and I believe the looming complexities on the horizon without shared global values is a recipe for widespread, if not total destruction.

As I am advocating AVOIDING destruction, can we at least start to entertain these ideas?

1. The entire world financial system might need to be rapidly restructured, as it makes no sense whatsoever for an efficient means of regulating supply and demand, resource distribution, and positive working environments for all.
2. Humans are changing rapidly, and the disparity between those with multigenerational intellectual nurturing and competition vs those with manual labor skills is as wide as it has ever been, and these divides are within countries and between countries.
3. Our global education system, especially in the united states is no longer viable.
4. Intellectual property rights — corporations holding ideas hostage were necessary in the old economy, but are now creating horrific inefficiency everywhere in the world — while some reward for innovation is necessary, “first to the post then lock away for years” is an absurd model.
5. We need to have a very difficult open discussion about many social issues between countries, religions, gender etc — and we cannot be arrogant liberals in the discussions — we must try to hear all sides of the issues.
6. We need to get clear answers from all leaders about their beliefs when it comes to literal interpretations of religions in the modern era without that being a declaration of actual war. It should be easy for us all to say what we actually believe — why can’t we?

If one of the main presidential candidates believes we are literally in an end-times scenerio according to the book of revelation, I’d like them to say it openly on the campaign trail. Shit is scary out there. I want to know what these people BELIEVE — and we should all want this, no matter what we BELIEVE. That’s the point — it’s a belief — not a fact.

We live in a time where we are under the spell of a belief that anything can be proven, but like the Jeff Goldblum character says in “Jurassic Park” life finds a way — so does deceit and trickery. Uncertainty is part of our existence. Just look at this brand new tech they’ve developed:

We live in a world where Edward Snowden is no more believable than Max Headroom from the 80’s tv show. Reality can be faked, and we believe everything we read on the internet as fact, and we are hooked up to a constant stream from whichever direction we find most comfortable.

This is an existential crisis if ever there was one, but we can’t stop, step back, and look at the whole thing. It’s not intentional, but we are caught in a war for reality at the largest scale imaginable.

We are become more and more niche in our worldviews thanks to “the algorithm” and we can self segregate more than ever.

This has created a critical vulnerability in humanity on so many levels, and we have a circus sideshow parading as a presidential debate.

Something is very wrong here. We should be discussing far more important things.

There is a war for Reality, and you’ve always been a part of it — you should know mario is no longer flashing, and this is for real.