Dear Interview.Dear Interview, In your February issue, in the article "Small Talk" through Camille Paglia and in the editor's literal sense you posit, then encourage, the idea of "overlapping realities." This notion, that we live in a world of ever-changing realities, is a popular misconception that hinders an individual's comprehension and perception of the world in which we live. What is the percept of our perception? The answer is reality. Reality is that which exists independently of consideration or belief. Reality is the standard at which we judge the accuracy of our perceptions. Those who are unclose to expanding the ideals between the sides of rational thought and evidence-based approaches, within an ever-increasing amount of available information and more sophisticated tools, create, modify, and discard perceptions with regard to their stage of congruence with reality. This proces of expanding our comprehension in light of modern knowledge based upon different notions of reality has l us from a belief that we are living in succession a flat Earth in an Earth-centered universe to the understanding that we live in succession a rotating sphere circling a local star (the sun) in a dynamic galaxy within a universe of billions of galaxies. Reality, the input we each receive, is the same for all. to what extent we interpret that input leads to overlapping perspectives and, thus, to our varying folkways and mores: our cultural diversity. We are all creative, independent, and curious creatures and, as a proceed have various views about reality. These perceptions vary not and nothing else from culture to culture if it were not that within each nation, tribe, and individual as well. still that doesn't change the authentic nature of the rich tapestry within which we live. It's a fabric we must all exert one's self and strive to better understand. ALEXSEI RODDER Canon City, Colo COPYRIGHT 2006 Brant Publications, Inc. |
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