What can we be sure of?
2006-07-12 06:56:37 · 13 answers · asked by In Honor of Moja 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
yes, not only Americans but the whole world is living in illusions and delusions. everyone is being lied to.......
2006-07-12 07:08:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
I would say moreso, we are destracted, exhausted, and manipulated.
Compare the amount of time we spend working compared to Europeans. Our system is set up to where we work ourselves into bad health, if not to death. Families need two incomes, young people need overtime or more hours, on and on.
Add to that, we get home and are fed constant streams of "You need this to be happy", or "buy this and your life will be like so and sos". This keeps the cycle going. We are willing to work harder and longer to move there, buy that, get one of those, or to get our kids all the things we never had.
Lastly, our political machine delivers the last nail in the coffin. A steady diet of manufactured consent seals our fate. We are willing to deffend the biggest illusion of all: democrats and republicans. We are kind of like fanatical sports fans who root, defend, and give there life for a team of millionaires who could care less about them, and have very little knowledge or interest in how they live.
2006-07-12 07:43:37 · answer #2 · answered by 7 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It appears that the sheer prosperity, not to mention the relative geographic isolation, of the United States insulates its citizens from the hardships and horrors that most people on this planet have to endure. And given that many of these hardships are caused by multinational corporations, it is highly unlikely that corporate media has any real interest in sharing more than soundbites about whatever the latest troublespot is.
2006-07-12 07:31:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you be more specific? Any examples of what we're living in that constitutes "a world of illusions and delusions?"
2006-07-12 07:00:09 · answer #4 · answered by chrstnwrtr 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absolutely. But I think it is more of a protection mode we put ourselves in. illusions can keep us safe if we believe what we want to believe. But that does not mean we should choose to be ignorant on purpose.
2006-07-12 07:01:11 · answer #5 · answered by Jill P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oh, it isn't any longer that i imagine you're not from now on severe. yet I actual ought to ask your self how a lot severe, contemplative wondering you've invested before making the alternative that it truly is what you pick. . .or that you've faith it truly is what you pick. (Assuming you're not from now on speaking of a digital reality of phantasm and delusion. . .as in creative internet play) Your search for falls lower than the parameters of . . ."be careful what you desire for, you only may get it." Your rational suggestions that recognizes the realities you pick to flee can should be relinquished. continually, as you'll no longer have a rational suggestions to come back to a decision you pick to go away your delusional suggestions. Which, by technique of how, will no longer be a delusional reality for you. . . .it's going to be reality for you. you're able to have exchanged one reality for yet another "reality". for sure, delusional may be utilized to absolutely everyone who believes a delusional reality is maximum awesome to a rational one. a speedy holiday right into a locked ward, the position the terrified screams of those trapped in some delusional reality in many circumstances pierce your ears. and obviously, it is the delusional who kill their toddlers contained in the concept they could be better off with God. Oh, the knowledge in be careful what you desire for? To wit: the female who hated her drunken, unemployed, abusive husband a lot that she became fed on with wanting him lifeless. sure, she were given what she needed. He became hit head on by technique of an l8-wheeler. He died without delay. Of, route, her 4 365 days previous twins contained in the decrease back seat screamed in terror and affliction as they burned to demise with out mercy.
2016-12-01 03:41:20 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can be sure you breath in and out...
You can be sure of most everything you do actually....No trusting others in that reguard...-smiles- trust is born within ourselves. and we then extend that hand to others, do I think people are like Alice, no....I think that people are more just blissfully ignorant....with blinders so to speak, just because they see something, doesn't mean they shall respond to it...
2006-07-12 07:00:36 · answer #7 · answered by ~Sinfully~Exquisite~Stalking~ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you ever heard of the principle of self trust? It simply theorizes that it is rational, and otherwise OK, if we put trust in our senses if there is no evidence to contradict our sensory info.
2006-07-12 08:45:49 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unfortunately, sweetheart, there are a lot who believe everything they hear/are "blind" and don't see things in their real dimensions.And a lot of these people are concentrated in america.you know, the most sad is the fact that these people are everywhere.
2006-07-12 07:27:04 · answer #9 · answered by figurehead 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Seems so sometimes, but we things do come to us pretty easily.
2006-07-12 07:06:17 · answer #10 · answered by Tissa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋