Separate Realities

The world series victory puts me in mind of other struggles that are going on...

I've been struck by how often the sudden switchbacks and jaw-dropping falsehoods of some political figures (it doesn't matter which ones) contradict what I think are the facts. The PIPA.org report, "The Separate Realities of Bush and Kerry Supporters" confirms what I long suspected: they and I live in separate worlds.

The problem is that actions that seem reasonable to one group can be disastrous in the world of the other group.

There's a real correspondance here to the religious cult phenomenon of the 70s, and one lesson I learned from that experience is that only the individual caught up in a separate reality can break out of it. Nobody else can do it for them (deprogramming seldom worked).

Seriously looking at opposing views helps: some of them are easily dismissed, but if some are troubling, check them out.