Being Crazy
Aug. 29th, 2004 01:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
htothehSomeone says they find my blog interesting! Can't help but wonder what that's a euphemism for...
I went out more this week than I ever have before, I think. Missed dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and didn't get home until 12:30 on Friday night. This is Not Normal for me. Dad was silly when I called--wouldn't give me a straight answer on a curfew extension. I hate it when he does that.
I have come to the preliminary conclusion that reality is formed by consensus. This is a conclusion that needs some work, of course, because there are some things that are real no matter who believes in them, like the world being round even before Columbus' time, but generally, it's true. Colors, for example. I could start calling the colors in my blog layout orange and black, and I would be crazy; but if "maroon" and "grey" started to be defined as orange and black, it would be the people who persisted in calling my layout maroon that would be crazy.
Another question, then, is if this actually matters. After all, the people in the Matrix didn't seem to notice that their world wasn't real. Why does real matter?
Not having a computer is annoying. Mine died a few days ago; I've been stuck without AIM, email, or surfing in privacy ever since. Iz bad.
I went out more this week than I ever have before, I think. Missed dinner on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday, and didn't get home until 12:30 on Friday night. This is Not Normal for me. Dad was silly when I called--wouldn't give me a straight answer on a curfew extension. I hate it when he does that.
I have come to the preliminary conclusion that reality is formed by consensus. This is a conclusion that needs some work, of course, because there are some things that are real no matter who believes in them, like the world being round even before Columbus' time, but generally, it's true. Colors, for example. I could start calling the colors in my blog layout orange and black, and I would be crazy; but if "maroon" and "grey" started to be defined as orange and black, it would be the people who persisted in calling my layout maroon that would be crazy.
Another question, then, is if this actually matters. After all, the people in the Matrix didn't seem to notice that their world wasn't real. Why does real matter?
Not having a computer is annoying. Mine died a few days ago; I've been stuck without AIM, email, or surfing in privacy ever since. Iz bad.
