There’s a problem.

It’s everywhere, and in everyone.

It’s a very clear but really complicated thing.

The problem is ‘what we don’t see’.

What we don’t see doesn’t exist, for us.

What we don’t see is what evades us, and is therefore unimportant.

And that happens a whole lot more than just a lot.

There’s SO much we don’t see, yet we believe we see everything.

That’s part of the problem.

We think we see the world, the whole world, in detail, exactly the way it is.

So why add something or believe in something more, if all of this is so obviously exactly what it is?

Come on!

Nice house, shitty haircut, troublesome future.

Delicious food, bad dog, stupid people on Twitter.

Boom.

Clear as day.

The fact that our neighbor disagrees on many things doesn’t change that.

He’s an ignorant douchebag (for sure).

We don’t see what we don’t see, because we don’t see it.

Not because we don’t want to.

It’s just not there, for us.

We only see what we see, and we only experience stuff the way we experience it.

It’s totally, utterly personal, but so what?

What I like, you can dislike with a passion.

What I truly hate, you may love with everything you’ve got.

My ugly is your beautiful.

Your hope is my despair.

When I vow for left, you might choose right.

Is rain bad?

Is cancer bad for every person in the world, including CEOs of companies that make cancer medication?

Do we agree on the meaning of war?

Is your blue just as blue as my blue?

Right and wrong get tangled up in this system of personal truths.

There’s no such thing as good and bad if we don’t really see everything.

Which we don’t.

Which we couldn’t.

And the problem is that we don’t know.

We don’t know what we don’t know.

This is an absolutely useless post.

But I don’t see that as a problem.

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