{"id":60049,"date":"2021-10-23T09:23:33","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T14:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60049"},"modified":"2021-10-23T09:23:33","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T14:23:33","slug":"the-four-layers-of-reality-and-why-were-only-allowed-to-talk-about-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=60049","title":{"rendered":"The Four Layers of Reality \u2014 and Why We\u2019re Only Allowed to Talk About One"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2021\/10\/22\/the-four-layers-of-reality-and-why-were-only-allowed-to-talk-about-one\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">The Four Layers of Reality \u2014 and Why We\u2019re Only Allowed to Talk About One<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<p>No matter which mainstream media segment you\u2019re currently watching, I can promise you it\u2019s not getting to the heart of any issue. By definition they only participate in surface level analysis. For example, there are three or four levels of reality we should be discussing when we talk about any United States election. And by \u201cdiscussing,\u201d I mean \u201cscreaming about,\u201d and by \u201cscreaming about,\u201d I mean \u201c<em>freaking out about<\/em>.\u201d So, let\u2019s\u00a0<em>freak out<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 shall we?<\/p>\n<p>Quick tangent \u2013 I got made fun of as a kid for \u201cfreaking out\u201d or \u201cspazzing out\u201d all the time, but when you think about it \u2014 when you really think about it \u2014 shouldn\u2019t we all be freaking out? When you look around and so few people are enjoying their lives and so many people are struggling or oppressed, and there are new and bizarre illnesses and viruses to worry about, and all of our so-called leaders are goddamn corrupt\u00a0<em>morons\u00a0<\/em>\u2014 shouldn\u2019t we all be spazzing out? If you look at our current reality, it\u2019s\u00a0<em>all<\/em>\u00a0spazz-worthy.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, we have three or four levels of reality that we should be discussing all the time because they\u2019re incredibly important. But, generally speaking, American politicians and media don\u2019t talk about the deeper layers. In fact, they\u00a0<em>only<\/em>\u00a0talk about the surface layer (because they\u2019re corporate tools).<\/p>\n<p>So, using this past presidential election as an example: Layer one was \u2014 Who\u2019s going to win? Biden or Trump? That\u2019s the surface layer. It was fair to talk about it and fair to debate it. But if we stop at that and don\u2019t dig deeper, we don\u2019t actually know anything about\u00a0<em>reality<\/em>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Four Layers of Reality \u2014 and Why We\u2019re Only Allowed to Talk About One No matter which mainstream media segment you\u2019re currently watching, I can promise you it\u2019s not getting to the heart of any issue. By definition they only participate in surface level analysis. For example, there are three or four levels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[5493,7464,29622,496,669],"class_list":["post-60049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-counterpunch","tag-interpretation","tag-lee-camp","tag-mainstream-media","tag-reality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60049"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60050,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60049\/revisions\/60050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}