The New Reality

There is something admirable, but also delusional about the American character which seeks to hack new realities out of life. When it works, many mistake it for creation, rather than merely discovering a heretofore unknown aspect of it.

The truly intelligent understand they’re merely uncovering reality rather than manufacturing it whole cloth. Like Michelangelo's aphorism about sculpting marble, the discerning understand this. The others rail against such an idea of life because they’ve been conditioned to conclude that America’s abundance of opportunity translates to an almost superhuman ability to manhandle reality’s molecules to synthesize a new reality. This is not only possible, it is simple, given the proper mindset, money, and a massive government program.

In this, they’re not unlike those blind men and their proverbial elephant. Whatever one may think that reality elephant is (a rope!), it is an elephant nevertheless, or perhaps regardless.

The wrong-headed approach to reality bending gives rise to such ludicrous conclusions as the idea that gender is a figment of society’s imagination only, amenable to infinite combinatorics.

It hasn’t, can’t, and won’t work. Life will out.