It’s like buying a new board game or video game. Some can keep you entertained for hundreds of hours. Some can become entire lifestyles. But at the end of the day they’re finite games.
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We choose to put on a pedestal people who say “let them eat cake” because they’re removed from out reality. We wanted it because we wanted an ideal to strive for.
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Blaming some leader figure or some group in power for being disconnected from reality is like being angry and sad that Iron Man doesn’t exist in real life. They are purposefully disconnected because that’s how we keep ideals pure.
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We bolster them by sacrificing and keeping silent about how we really feel. We support their illusions and then complain that they live in an illusion.
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We support the bolstering of grand illusions because we ourselves need our little illusions. Our sacrifices and our pain make that illusion into a reality, at least for a little while. When the pain fades, we need to cut ourselves again.
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