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I think these are less examples of "fantasy" and more reminders that we live in a human-constructed reality. This is a healthier way to look at it because it ac
by c22 5y ago
I think these are less examples of "fantasy" and more reminders that we live in a human-constructed reality. This is a healthier way to look at it because it acknowledges that these systems have been evolved and implemented, often with clear intent, over the course of thousands of years by humans in order to solve human-related problems. They are not merely accidental byproducts of some shared mass-delusion.
Rather than being illusory, this "agreed game of pretend" actually does, as it turns out, have far reaching and marked effects over the physical ("real") world (which is also largely human-built at the present).
For me, the big epiphany from dabbling with LSD, was that this built environment (both physical and social) is malleable by me and other humans not because it's imaginary, but because it's literally our creation successively replacing more and more of what was here before.
I think there is a danger in viewing human progress and social mores as pretend because it can lead to a subject questioning deeper aspects of reality that start to tread into pink elephant territory which I think might be more common in normal LSD users than you are giving credit for.
- alar44 5y agoWe agree. I used pretend and imaginary as words to describe things being not inherently true. Like there isn't some inherent reason that we can infer from the laws of the universe that driving on the right or left hand side of the road is better. We just picked one way and ran with it. Adults are just big kids making up the rules as we go along, etc.