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The most dangerous pandemic in our society isn’t transmitted between bodies, but between minds: A pandemic of lunacy. We are drowning in a flood of crazy ideas, and they aren’t just silly — they’re harmful.
Take the crazy idea that each person has his own reality, which is only one of 30 contagious delusions I discuss in a new book. A professor at the university where I teach preached this lunacy in his classroom. Student A pushed back a little: “So if someone decides he’s a refrigerator, then he’s a refrigerator?” Student B defended the teacher’s claim: “It wouldn’t be like that. He would have been a refrigerator from birth.”
If we have different realities, then what happens if in my reality, we don’t have different realities? Someone might answer, “So what — we do in mine!” But if he thinks our realities are different, then how does he get the right to say that his view of things is true?
I chatted one day with a psychotherapist who explained that “everyone has his own reality” was one of her guiding axioms. The conversation went something like this.
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spectator.org
Take the crazy idea that each person has his own reality, which is only one of 30 contagious delusions I discuss in a new book. A professor at the university where I teach preached this lunacy in his classroom. Student A pushed back a little: “So if someone decides he’s a refrigerator, then he’s a refrigerator?” Student B defended the teacher’s claim: “It wouldn’t be like that. He would have been a refrigerator from birth.”
If we have different realities, then what happens if in my reality, we don’t have different realities? Someone might answer, “So what — we do in mine!” But if he thinks our realities are different, then how does he get the right to say that his view of things is true?
I chatted one day with a psychotherapist who explained that “everyone has his own reality” was one of her guiding axioms. The conversation went something like this.
Continued below.
No, Virginia, Each Person Does Not Have His Own Reality – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
The most dangerous pandemic in our society isn’t transmitted between bodies, but between minds: A pandemic of lunacy. We are drowning in a flood of crazy ideas, and they aren’t just silly — they’re harmful. Take the crazy idea that each person has his own reality, which is only one…
spectator.org
