[poldk]

Money is a socialized hallucination

We’re following along with the pseudoscience and propaganda of the prior generation of post war shellshocked Cold War paranoids

Supply demand has more to do with real supply. Even if there’s plenty of housing in BFE no one wants to live there. Where the supply is and other variables matter. Cherry picked social media and corporate news may as well be throwing spaghetti at the wall. This is the colloquial equivalent to p-hacking.

[EasyMark]

I suppose if that’s the case then human society is a hallucination. It only has as much reality and value as we decide as a group to give it. Any bit of human construct can be considered a hallucination beyond realities like eating, drinking, and expelling without which we cease to exist.

[poldk]

Yep. Society is not immutable physics. Note how it keeps changing despite appeals of prior generations to stay the same.

How the species tries to blow itself up.

If we were meant to exist forever all these physics things would not be able to harm us. Constrain us to life on Earth. We couldn’t die.

Entropy is a bitch.

[cscurmudgeon]

Hey, language is a socialized hallucination too.

Using that logic, thanks for agreeing with me!

[poldk]

Yeah it is. It’s highly mutable. No need for it to be what you believe it to be.

My point is the endless possibilities and only one real reality matters; enough people feel served by society or they’ll forget the words and reach for guns.

Your grasp of contemporary memes is not armor against physics.