Questioning People not Reality

I have genuinely never had cause to question reality, and I am not sure why I would. I am sure that other responses to this prompt will explain the situation eloquently, but to me reality is the only reality of life. Only what you can see exists and anything that seems supernatural or unreal in nature is simply a phenomenon that hasn’t been adequately explained by science yet. That said I have had many occasions to question the mass of people who exist in the same reality as me!

I have almost favourite sweatshirt that my wife tolerates me wearing and which my youngest daughter hates! It was a present from my younger son and it reads ‘People Ruin Everything’! My 60 years of life experience is summarised in those three words! People exist in the same reality as me but they make decisions and form opinions that I genuinely can’t understand. Now I am by no means saying I am right in even the majority of my opinions and decisions, but I sometimes find myself utterly baffled by other people’s reactions to the same events and situations.

As we become ever more divided, we have left behind the post war consensus that created the welfare state and the brief one or two generation experiment with something approaching an egalitarian society. Yes, that egalitarian experiment wasn’t perfect, indeed it had many problems, but under leaders like Wilson, Heath and Callaghan in my early years we seemed to be moving towards a rough sort of meritocracy. That concept itself is now anathema to so many people, and our increasingly awful politicians across the world are taking advantage of this. There’s probably two or three politicians over the past twenty years or so who I believe genuinely wanted the best for everyone in society and they are all out of power having never been able to change the basis of human nature which is to hate anyone different.

Reality is completely fine, it’s human beings who ruin it!