{"id":46304,"date":"2022-02-17T12:32:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=46304"},"modified":"2022-02-17T12:32:54","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T12:32:54","slug":"youre-never-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/02\/17\/youre-never-right\/","title":{"rendered":"You&#8217;re never right."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Separate realities.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We can intellectually know that our worlds differ, that our opinions and preferences vary, but for most people that doesn&#8217;t change much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One day I realized that if my world looks 100% realistic and true to me, your world must look the same to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And then this question came up:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;How do I know for sure that my version of the world is better and more important and more true than yours?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t that be the greatest coincidence EVER, me being the only person on the planet always being absolutely right about everything?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Uh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It sounds stupid when you put it out there like that, but at the same: it is exactly what we do, how we live and react, most of the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our worldviews are the most important constructs in our lives, and they don&#8217;t even look like constructs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Everything we&#8217;ve ever learned about life turned into this personal soup we call &#8216;me&#8217;, and we totally fell for the delusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is no such thing as a &#8216;bad&#8217; movie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Both good and bad are far from universal, and totally rely on our highly personal web of ideas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Every opinion, every judgment, every taste, is subjective.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This means that we can never really be right about something.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nobody can.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So we are really in this together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How would your life change if you truly realized this?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Separate realities. We can intellectually know that our worlds differ, that our opinions and preferences vary, but for most people that doesn&#8217;t change much. One day I realized that if my world looks 100% realistic and true to me, your world must look the same to you. And then this question came up: &#8220;How do [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[97,117,100,116,113,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46304"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46304"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46306,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46304\/revisions\/46306"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}