What is Reality?

To lead a prosperous and contented life, one must understand reality and the opportunities and threats it presents. Evading reality is a recipe for misery.

It’s a fair question: What is reality? What people consider “reality” varies wildly from person to person, however that notion of reality carries with it something much more fundamental and is crucial to leading a good life.

We begin with a personal baseline for determining what is “reality.” If you consume the national news on a regular basis, your baseline for reality can be shaken quite hard.

After all, we are now being told that men can become women and get pregnant, that race is the ultimate human identity, that mandated governmental control over our medical choices is good, that small children should be objects of sexual instruction by their teachers and that soaring inflation, fuel and food prices are a net positive and indicators of a healthy economy. We are also told that solar panels and wind turbines can power the entire country, that our southern border is completely secure and that the 2020 presidential election was the most secure election in history.

We’ve been exposed to such gaslighting for generations, usually in the context of some form of believable truth. But today’s message, with no foundation or truth is: What is happening to you right now is not actually happening.

Did we just enter the Matrix?

Some of us are aware of the gaslighting being waged to warp our senses and make us question our own world of experiences and beliefs. The effort here is to force outlandish fantasies onto the public and manufacture our agreed-to consent for those fantasies or face condemnation, loss of livelihood, physical violence or worse. That is not a formula for a healthy mind or a healthy society.

So the question remains: What is Reality?

In light of this push to obscure or obliterate the basic facts of realism, it’s important to understand that reality exists and that the most fundamental divide in our nation is between those who deal with reality and those who avoid reality.

As a prosperous nation, Americans have the first-world luxury of pretending that people who drive gas-powered vehicles and use natural gas to cook their steaks are causing the weather to change. When people around the world are doing everything they can to just survive, as in third-world China or India, embracing reality takes a greater priority over buying into today’s latest manufactured fiction. In many cases it is the difference between life and death.

Reality, for all its flaws, is a good thing. Reality has a clarifying element that helps us make better life decisions and lead lives of genuine sustainability. It is far better than closing your eyes to the truth and lying your way to some form of perfect world, emotionally detached from the consequences.

Allowing boys to use the girls’ bathroom is considered “inclusive” but it willfully ignores the biological and intellectual differences between young males and females, clearing the way for physical abuse and psychological damage. These are real consequences that anyone can predict and residing in a different reality will not prevent this damage.

How is it that two adults having sexual dialogue in the workplace is labeled as prohibited harassment, yet it is acceptable for an adult to have sexually oriented talks with 8-year-olds attending school? Only if you bend reality to conclude that kids are not damaged by such behavior and that they can process discussing kinky behavior as experienced adults without becoming confused or psychologically broken.

Pragmatic people, in general, face reality and address the problems it presents while rejecting the slouch toward pretended normalcy that is promoted by many media outlets, college campuses and large corporations. And the people who buy into this pretend world are angry, depressed and quite vicious.

In reality, there are two sexes within the human species: male and female. We should celebrate the relations between male and female with all of their immutable benefits and reject the distorted and unnatural trendy fads that run counter to all biological fact.

In reality, young children are not appropriate objects of sexual instruction. They have a right to grow up innocent and not be subjected to explicit displays of kink put forth to gratify unbalanced adults. Age-appropriate sex education is the responsibility of the parents who wish to have their children learn educational skills at school and not who the teacher is screwing this weekend.

In reality, race is not the ultimate identity of people and it is certainly not the central problem of American life. While different ethnic populations have different ways of life and cultural norms, they do not have different natural rights. America today has proven to be the most inclusive, most inviting, and least racist nation on Earth – only those who ignore reality to push divisive agendas and narratives insist on such garbage.

And in reality, disease and death are part of human life – not something to keep us locked down over. Humans were made for freedom and all of the risks that come with it. We have a lifetime of personal experience with our health: How to keep from getting injured, avoiding dangerous situations, navigating through challenging cold and flu seasons and protecting our families as we see fit. Expecting others to manage our health and safety results in restrictions and mandates based not on reality but on incompetence and aggressive tyranny.

To lead a prosperous and contented life, one must understand reality and the opportunities and threats it presents. Life is not fair and thank God for that – if life were fair, we would ALL be living in squalor.

That is reality.