{"id":47740,"date":"2022-08-20T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/?p=47740"},"modified":"2022-08-20T16:33:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T16:33:07","slug":"the-problem-that-nobody-sees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/2022\/08\/20\/the-problem-that-nobody-sees\/","title":{"rendered":"The problem that nobody sees."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There\u2019s a problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s everywhere, and in everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s a very clear but really complicated thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem is \u2018what we don\u2019t see\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we don\u2019t see doesn\u2019t exist, for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we don\u2019t see is what evades us, and is therefore unimportant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that happens a whole lot more than just a lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s SO much we don\u2019t see, yet we believe we see everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s part of the problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We think we see the world, the whole world, in detail, exactly the way it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why add something or believe in something more, if all of this is so obviously exactly what it is?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Come on!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nice house, shitty haircut, troublesome future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delicious food, bad dog, stupid people on Twitter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clear as day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fact that our neighbor disagrees on many things doesn\u2019t change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s an ignorant douchebag (for sure).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t see what we don\u2019t see, because we don\u2019t see it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not because we don\u2019t want to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s just not there, for us.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We only see what we see, and we only experience stuff the way we experience it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s totally, utterly personal, but so what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I like, you can dislike with a passion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What I truly hate, you may love with everything you\u2019ve got.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My ugly is your beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Your hope is my despair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When I vow for left, you might choose right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is rain bad?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is cancer bad for every person in the world, including CEOs of companies that make cancer medication?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do we agree on the meaning of war?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is your blue just as blue as my blue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right and wrong get tangled up in this system of personal truths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s no such thing as good and bad if we don\u2019t really see everything.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which we don\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Which we couldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the problem is that we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We don\u2019t know what we don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is an absolutely useless post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But I don\u2019t see that as a problem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

—<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo by @ph_an_tom, for Unsplash)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There\u2019s a problem. It\u2019s everywhere, and in everyone. It\u2019s a very clear but really complicated thing. The problem is \u2018what we don\u2019t see\u2019. What we don\u2019t see doesn\u2019t exist, for us. What we don\u2019t see is what evades us, and is therefore unimportant. And that happens a whole lot more than just a lot. There\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47741,"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":[97,117,100,116,113,107,103,112],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47740"}],"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=47740"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47742,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47740\/revisions\/47742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marnix.nl\/homepage\/welkom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}