This is our last dance, this is ourselves... under pressure...

Objective reality is what I've been thinking about, reality exists whether or not you consent to it.

If you don't believe that, go up to the rooftop, announce that you don't believe in gravity and start walking.  Let me know how it works out.

Simple as that, it's not like reality requires you to put oxygen in your body to live.  It's not like reality wants you to expel feces from your butthole.  Unless reality actually involve that and you're not smart enough to acknowledge that.  But those are never included as exceptions by the people who claim there's no such thing as objective reality.  They will make such statements if it might give them political advantage, or if they are ordered to by the people in charge of them.

That's basically it.  There can be no progress without acknowledging reality.  You can't hear without sound and sound requires an atmosphere.  There are individuals who can't hear even with sound and atmosphere but deafness is an established fact for those individuals and does not disprove reality.  Quite the contrary, it is only possible to learn this via acceptance of reality which is quickly discovered to be much more complicated than the people who claim there is no objective reality ever admit.

This is quite possibly where the fundamental distinction is, people who acknowledge reality have an advantage over those who don't.  Those who don't can never be persuaded otherwise without their own individual consent and these traits continue through history.  The leftists have to accept reality one way or another just to be in charge but no matter how they try to impose their view on everyone, there remain individuals who recognize reality for what it is.  By the same token, I don't think it's possible to remove denial of reality any more than it's possible to remove individualism.  If nothing else, people will always disagree and at least one of them will be wrong because reality is too complicated to fully perceive.  Western civilization was built by men who understand that even if it wasn't conscious for them.  So was any other civilization, they couldn't have done it without reality.

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