A Human Strategy #513: The social mind or realism



513

The social mind swings far and wide, like a pendulum, reaching out toward one illusion and then falling back with fear or disgust ... only to race out again toward another illusion.

But there is a shorter, faster swing available to the human experience ... and it is not the “middle ground” of opposing “causes” or “moralities” ... but the coexistence of two imaginary universes ... an overcoming of both stark reality and heady achievement over and over again ... training and practicing the reflexes ... perfecting one’s observation skills so that the corrections become shorter and faster ... as one who tightens an iron string and takes joy in the vibration as it increases in pitch.

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