I’ve never followed NFL football so the guys that make it to the news are all unfamilar to me. Like that guy that did corporal punishment to his son or the guy that knocked out his wife on an elevator, or the guy who had knowledge of deflation going on, or this latest one- the guy who decided not to stand for the singing of the Anthem…
The societal problem Colin Kaepernick wants to relay to people is one that doesn’t factor into some people’s mental construction- how their brain creates their own reality at each and every second.
Indeed, many people I know haven’t enough intellectual computing power to understand other people’s perspective, let alone interpret reality properly. I dont think you can interpret reality properly any more unless you are actively reading opinions on twitter, but soley getting twitter “news” can lead to extreme distortions in your thinking.
That is the problem- everyone is just living in their own reality due to news and propeganda. I can’t tell what is what anymore. I know people who don’t even understand that at least some news in the paper and more so on tv is almost as bad as soviet propaganda.
Social media is strange in that it lets you see other peope’s vision of reality for themselves. You can see those who worships sports, those who worship nature, those who worship money, and those who venerate the angels and saints.
The question I wonder about the most is who’s reality is right?
In some people’s reality, the world is so dire that Trump is the right guy- fit to come in and blow up the whole, rigged system. In some other realities, HRC’s only downside is her moral flaws that are no worse than other presidents. We won’t know which reality is right until after it happens.
Some people don’t think the Son of Man will return… Is their reality the correct one? If they are ultimately proven wrong, should we have any reason to trust their judgement on any matter if they could be so wrong about the reality we all live in?
What is the real reality we face? Until the end of time, we create our own realities (if you just can’t wait until the end of time to experience the Redemer, there is a VR movie from the same producer and religious advisor as Mel Gibson’s Passion to experience the Lord in 3D)…
So which reality will we make? Change everything by demolishing everything, or cling to the staus quo because another reality is unthinkiable and far worse than the status quo (wayward as the status quo is, is it still more acceptable than the unkown)? How do we get a choice in between both extremes? How can we create that reality- this is what everyone wonders to themselves…