"DOUBLE-THINK", our salvation?

"DOUBLE-THINK", our salvation?

1. Do you think you are the absolute center of the universe? Well, Foster Wallace explained that this mind orientation phenomenon is pretty common as every individual has an own perspective about everything surrounding him.

2. Our individual subconscious is automatically programed in a "default-setting" mode which in an abstract manner is the reason of our "life-death" existence.

3. Sometimes our mind abstraction is more powerful than our "in front" reality.

   • We don´t live in the past, present nor future. WE LIVE INSIDE OF OUR OWN MINDS.

4. Raúl Vázquez Guerrero

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     • January 13th, 2020
       • "This is water" by David Foster Wallace
   • I see very clear the trend of "DOUBLE-THINK" such as George Orwell described in 1984 -the same principle method but with an evident different purpose-. The fact that humans are provided throughout their lives of disgusting moments that are undoubtedly inevitables reflect a necessity in our structure of thinking. It is interesting how we as humans isolate from reality in order to get a natural psychological protection within a certain toxic environment -just as the example of the long queue in the supermarket-. Nevertheless, to escape from the present is what Foster Wallace explicitly described as being death in life. According to the "default-setting", we are rotten since the day we met abstraction. Are we doomed to ignore reality?
     • As it was stated, to adulate material, banal and worldly stuff always distortion the real essence of the meaning of life. It is truth that probability would play an interesting roll accepting that it would not be impossible to assume that odd or bizarre situations could actually be possible within the daily routine; but to double-think and accepting the probability of possible events could be "our salvation" of programmed abstraction despite that would not be common. As humans, that is part of our redemption.

5. Perhaps the key life is to acknowledge that reality is not other thing but relativity.

6. In order to connect our relative present with someone´s else, it is crucial to "double-think" just to be emphatic with an external situation.

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