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<blockquote data-quote="SM Rider" data-source="post: 2774831" data-attributes="member: 35816"><p>My question towards Henshman was rhetorical. Unlike most people, I don't anthropomorphize something that only exists in the mind. That people in power use the fiction to dictate behavior for their benefit still does not equate to "it" being real. I understand the concept of government under the guise of a monarch or dictator. But this so called "government of the people" is nothing but an illusion of our collective minds being in agreement to call something that isn't real as being real. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I've actually kept my comments simple for people to understand. Sorry that they are above you. As for "reality", I contend that people who view an intangible "entity" as being real are not living in reality.</p><p></p><p>The reality is that <em>government</em> is a fiction. That is the reality. Just because you and most others suffer from cognitive dissonance and are unwilling to unlearn the myth taught throughout their lives doesn't change the reality that government is a paper fiction. As much as a paper fiction as a corporation that comes to be only by virtue of men putting onto paper a concept and then asking others to accept that fiction as reality. The process of learning often requires unlearning. For example, once people believed the world to be flat. When the facts proved otherwise, people had to unlearn the information they held in order to understand the reality. Those who maintained that the world was flat in spite of the facts suffer cognitive dissonance. Those who maintain that government is real in spite of the facts suffer cognitive dissonance.</p><p></p><p>They live in Plato's Cave.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SM Rider, post: 2774831, member: 35816"] My question towards Henshman was rhetorical. Unlike most people, I don't anthropomorphize something that only exists in the mind. That people in power use the fiction to dictate behavior for their benefit still does not equate to "it" being real. I understand the concept of government under the guise of a monarch or dictator. But this so called "government of the people" is nothing but an illusion of our collective minds being in agreement to call something that isn't real as being real. I've actually kept my comments simple for people to understand. Sorry that they are above you. As for "reality", I contend that people who view an intangible "entity" as being real are not living in reality. The reality is that [I]government[/I] is a fiction. That is the reality. Just because you and most others suffer from cognitive dissonance and are unwilling to unlearn the myth taught throughout their lives doesn't change the reality that government is a paper fiction. As much as a paper fiction as a corporation that comes to be only by virtue of men putting onto paper a concept and then asking others to accept that fiction as reality. The process of learning often requires unlearning. For example, once people believed the world to be flat. When the facts proved otherwise, people had to unlearn the information they held in order to understand the reality. Those who maintained that the world was flat in spite of the facts suffer cognitive dissonance. Those who maintain that government is real in spite of the facts suffer cognitive dissonance. They live in Plato's Cave. [/QUOTE]
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