Why are some people so out of touch with reality?

Question

I've found out (mostly through the internet or travel) that many people simply don't understand that you can't just do things to other people or they assume that in life everyone succeeds without hurting others in the process or just effecting anyone negatively at least once or they assume you can live life with absolutely no work and i don't understand how people could live like that in a world of rainbows, sugar, and unicorns

Answer 1

Certainly, there are multiple causes for such a phenomena. I can mention a few that come to mind.

I suspect that this would at least some of the time have something to do with experience. Some people apparently experience more cloistered, protected lives than others. Some, perhaps due to a charming appearance, charismatic persona, or surplus wealth, are able to glide through their days with relatively little anxiety.

Of course, you may be speaking about someone who is poor, unfortunate, etc. and yet does not recognize their sufferable condition. Perhaps they simply are not attached to the values society has endeavored so hard to instill upon them.

Whether or not it is possible to have fire without smoke (action without negative effects), it seems to me a laudable effort to endeavor not to impose one's being upon others. I myself live according to this principle, and while I occasionally step on some toes, I try to avoid it as much as possible. Thus, I practice the Vedic principle, ahimsa (non-violence). I have found it possible, if only by living simply. It was Gandhi who said, "live simply so that other may simply live." This is a noble thought, and worth pursuing.

Other modes of behavior are possible, such as passionate or ignorant action, but these are inferior in terms of the happiness they provide, and therefore ought to be avoided. Detachment from worldly activities gives one peace of mind. Man was born to nature, and only later creates the burden of self-imposed labor, while pursuing manufactured duties.

Answer 2

Most people live dreary hard-working lives. Look more closely at the way people spend MOST of their time. Sure, you'll notice some people prancing through life not caring about the consequences of their actions, but check out rush hour in any city or town and you'll see most people are working to survive. As for the fantasy worlds we inhabit, well, it's great we have an imagination to drag us occasionally out of that dreary daily routine. Many young people are still being supported by parents, and those kids really don't seem to have any cares or responsibilities; but their turn will come.

Answer 3

We have the same confusion, really...but have we really thought of one thing, like...what really is reality?

I guess that is the problem...until now we still are not so sure (and there hasn't been a concrete answer on this, either) what reality is. We believe in one reality, that is because we have been taught of that since we were children, and those who taught us that reality were also exposed to that reality since they were children...did you somehow get my drift? We wouldn't even know that our reality is right or wrong for others if we never knew of the other outside worlds...right? Like for example, have we ever really understood the practice of harakiri in Japan? That is one of their strongest realities...

Time (generation), culture, the environment...these are just some of the factors that set us apart from the others, that is why we believe in different realities. That is why sometimes--if not often--the views of the people extremely clash, even if we all live in one planet.

Perhaps it's really not that some people are so out of touch with reality...but maybe 'your' own reality, because if you really come to think of it, 'you' too will be out of touch with other's realities, mind you.

So I guess what we also need is a little in-depth view of things: try to understand why people act the way they are--them being so out of touch--and tell them what you feel, too. There is no better way of getting to a consensus other than communication. Perhaps, if we try to get into their shoes, too--and them getting into ours--people wouldn't seem to be so out of touch with reality.

But that doesn't mean they have the excuse of doing things that are already wrong, different cultures or not. Especially negative acts with obviously negative intentions. Murder is one concrete example.

Right? ^.^

Answer 4

dude, you are a man after my own heart! i encourage you to click my profile and read some of my answers!!!

why are so many people out of touch with reality?

here are some of the reasons:

'hey, mommy says i am special!'

'hey, mommy said i am gifted'

'hey, mommy said that i can be anything i want'

'hey, mommy said to never take no for an answer'

'hey, mommy bought everything i ever wanted'

'hey, mommy said that the world owes me'

'hey, mommy said that i am the most important person in the world'

'hey, mommy, said that dont let anyone tell you elsewise'

how's that for a very few small examples? i listen to the same mind numbing sh!t everyday about how THEIR (and only their kid) will grow up to be the next savior of the human race, cure cancer, save whatever f-u-cken rain forest that needs to be saved etc etc etc. all this because they got a 'nice work' from their second grade teacher.

i hear everyday single f-u-cken day. why are parents so f-u-cken in love with themsleves and think that they gave birth to the greatest f-u-cken human being that has ever been born since the beginning of time?

i am so sick of hearing how little johnny is able to recite 23 of the 50 states. LADY, he's 28 years old...you should reconsider the fact that he is retarded!

the good thing about all this out of touch reality generation?

i love stupid people. i love people who fail due to the inability to know what reality is. WHY??? because these losers who were told that they are something special only to find that they arent are the ones scrubbing my toilets, serving me french fries and doing all the nasty sh!t i wouldnt do.

i dont want smart competent people in this world. even if 0.5% of the people were truly successful in life...that is still competition for me. how did hitler gain control of the people! burn the f-u-cken books bro! stupid people are the easiest people to manipulate!

honestly, i love stupid people because they are my very very low paid slaves.

Answer 5

,,You don't succeed by putting anyone down. Anyone who secedes that way is demonic, you can't just 'do' things that hurt others. Your karma will take care of you quick.

In a world of reality love seems not to work,Christ was crucified,
but love does work.

Jonnie

Answer 6

Well again, that's only some people, the rest of us are actually living in the world we know and love today as reality. or in the words of Rainer Maria Rilke, "I live not in dreams, but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."

Answer 7

jkk k is a nut. but my answer is simple. its an escape from reality using alot of gods word as an excuse simply because there to darn lazy to get in the picture and realize we cannot live in the truth and it really is not expected of us to do so.

Answer 8

mayb thats thier reality so they dont need 2 accept urs

Answer 9

how could you live in the world you do?
we live the world we know and love.?

your world of iron, dust and ash may well be beatifull too.

Answer 10

Assuming they dont hurt other people, does it really bother you what they do?