不要生活在幻觉中,清醒一点
And now we come to the most alarming delusion of all. The idea that other people don't matter. Their feelings. Their needs. Imagine a cave where those inside never see the ourside world. Instead, they see shadows of their world projected on a wall. The world they see in the shadows is not the real world. But it's real to them. If you were to show them the world as it actually is, they would reject it as incompreshensible . Now what if, instead of being in a cave, you were out in the world, except you couldn't see it. Because you weren't looking. You were only looking at what the media has shown you. You trusted that the world you saw through the prison was the real world. But there's a difference. You see. Unlike the allegory of the cave where the people are real and the shadows are false, here other people are the shadows. This is the delusion of the narcissists who believe that they alone are real, that their feelings are the only feelings that matter because other people are just shadows. And shadows don't feel, because they are not real. But what if everyone lived in caves. Than no one would be real, not even you, unless you woke up one day and left the cave. And then, how strange would the world look after a lifetime of staring at shadows. |