"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand

Posted by GaltsGulch 9 years, 5 months ago to Pics
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"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality." - Ayn Rand

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  • Posted by $ Abaco 9 years, 5 months ago
    Reality, I've found, can be quite profitable - especially when most others deny it. That's all I can say about that...
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  • Posted by gaiagal 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Too bad the state of being reasonable is not as accepted as attributing action to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and unconscious motives.
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  • Posted by $ MichaelAarethun 9 years, 5 months ago in reply to this comment.
    Wrong definition

    rational - having reason or understanding

    rationale - an explanation of controlling principles of opinion, belief, practice or phenomena

    rationalism - a theory that reason is in itself a source of knowledge superior to and independent of sense perceptions.

    rationality - the state of being reasonable.

    rationalize - to attribute actions to rational and creditable motives without analysis of true and unconscious motives.

    Now that you have had your ration of definitions upon which to verbally feast we are back where broskjold22 let off.

    I bid thee do continue.
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  • Posted by gaiagal 9 years, 5 months ago
    Most people avoid reality...they also, somehow, continue that avoidance in order to deal with the consequences of having avoided the reality in the first place..

    It's fascinating. Rationalization and doubling down on the justification of error is an everyday coping mechanism. People in politics are the most noticeable examples due to their high public profiles. Cognitive dissonance and coping with that dissonance appears to be the normal condition.

    Avoiding reality to avoid reality has permitted people to avoid the consequences of avoiding reality for a prolonged period of time.

    This avoidance is made possible by the advancements in industry and technology.

    We are now, in this and many other countries, able to avoid even moderate hardships. This has permitted us to think that the absurdities of Wonderland are normal.
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