Reality

It has become remarkably popular lately to deny the existence of an objective reality independent of individual human perspective. This is probably the result of academia and politics, both of which have been so self centered that they find it possible to postulate just about anything. They certainly can't be entirely to blame, because they merely create the path, it is the rest of humanity that must tacitly accept it. Reality is not something that can be denied ad infinitum however. The current trend of consuming more than you produce and polluting to an extent that makes our existence untenable are rather glaring testaments to realities uncompromising nature. Science does its best to deal in terms of objective reality, and the testing of theories through the crucible of what is real has made it advance. The social sciences (a hilarious oxymoron) and political thought (another) has operated in a mental void in which reality need not apply. Politicians make incredibly absurd claims that are so inherently contradictory that even questioning their logic requires one to enter that void in which reality and the human facility that detects it, logic, simply can't exist. The fallacies that belch out of the brain factories are a little more difficult to detect, not because they are any less ridiculous, merely because they use more words and arguments so daft that it takes years of expensive training to even consider them as conceivably true. The people of the world seem to have been caught hook, line and sinker in this imbecilic charade. When a person drowns it is because they are forced underwater so long that in panic their brain forces them to breath the water in the desperate assumption that it is in fact air; with the predictable result of death. Much in the same fashion when people are surrounded by an endless ocean of falsities they eventually, out of desperation or depravity, begin to swallow, with the predictable result. I personally am a lifelong fan of reality because it is the only path to any solution to a problem. Trying to solve anything when you fail to perceive the intrinsic nature of the problem is impossible, and yet that is how we are currently going about it. All the ideology, faith and ambition in the world won't cure a single significant problem facing us humans. It's scary out here in reality, no hiding that fact, but things are only going to get worse if people remain willfully ignorant or delusional. Here are some of my favorite quotes on reality by some other humans-
"I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal."
-Groucho Marx
"How hard it is, sometimes, to trust the evidence of one's senses! How reluctantly the mind consents to reality."
-Norman Douglas
"Humankind cannot stand very much reality."
-T. S. Eliot
"When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality."
-Henry David Thoreau
"I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
-Martin Luther King Jr.