Am I doing whose reality wrong? I honestly have no idea what I'm talking about after I finish each sentence? Pls help me superior peers
‘We can evade reality but we cannot avoid the consequences of doing so.’
Human beings naturally predisposition themselves into thinking that our identity has succumb to the only existing reality, but this belief does not negate alternate realities. This thought process of self-importance can be witnessed to be inherent in all people, choosing to escape an objective reality within our own subjective reality, to hide within comforting illusion. But in doing this, the realities that we choose not to recognise are still as real as our own reality. To highlight this point, imagine you were born and raised in a box. Everything that you know about your world exists within your box, and everything foreign ceases to even be known within your reality. But the reality outside of this box is as thriving and real as inside the box. Human beings have developed this way of thinking throughout our evolution, displayed by our ignorance in choosing to repress alternative realities that still exist. The stars up in the sky were once naively thought to be reflection of our own hearts, denying the existence of alternate realities and planets that could contain life. This illusory thinking can be further explored in Plato’s Allegory of the Cave. Four prisoners were said to have been chained up and faced towards a wall for the entirety of their lives. Behind them there was a flickering fire that casted off shadows of the people who passed by on the raised walkway between the fire and the prisoners. The reality of the prisoners was merely a cave wall with a series of reflections, and any other reality would have been unimaginable to these men. But this does not make the reality non-existent, exemplified by when one of the prisoners was freed to endeavor upon an inconceivable journey in an unfamiliar reality. Therefore, we are able to effectively evade alternative worlds and realities holding the belief we are within a singular reality, but this does not make the repressed realities any less real.
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