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Symbolism / Ivan Milev/ King Marko

The Truth™.

Love the fact that everyone seems to know it but no one can quite “nail it down”.  We get our information third and fourth hand (minimum) and rarely if ever go out and look at the data sets.  People wake up to their cell phone and check the weather.  Never for a moment does it occur to them to open the door and look outside.

Local events are mediated by the local news.  Portland according to most is a dystopian hellscape stalked by antifa and regularly invaded by marauding bands of proud boys, yet my favorite restaurant for Chinese dumplings (I am going there tonight with a friend) is pretty damn close to the action and even on the nights that I went to check out the “riots” I thought the whole issue overwrought.  I actually remember walking over to a food cart to grab a burrito and then eating it while watching the show.

But even with direct observation, you have to filter through a set of your own physical and ideological filters.  When checking the weather, I am likely to say just how nice a day it is while she complains bitterly about the return of the Cryogenian.  Having wandered through the jungles of SE Asia, my definition of violence is different from that of a gated community princess.  

The world that we live in is a compendium of around eight billion points of view.  None quite see the same thing the same way.  I just wish folks would stop talking about the Truth™.