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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Literally? No. We're all subject to the same laws of physics.

Perceptual reality? World view? Yes. I only know one person in real life and not online (my wife) who shares some of my views of reality. For instance, I am a doomer. I am convinced we are well into the sixth, and by all accounts the most devastating, mass extinction. Humans are clever, but we depend on a stable environment for our food. That stable environment is turning into a series of alternating droughts, floods, fires, blizzards, and other extreme weather events. TBH, I'd be surprised if our species lasts to the end of the century. Hanson figures that, after feedbacks, we are on track for 10c of warming. That's apocalyptic. And every time scientists talk about it you hear words like 'faster than expected'. We are doing exactly nothing to prevent it, and are, in fact, accelerating the collapse by increasing our consumption, population, pollution, and environmental destruction. COP has been talking about it for so long (almost 30 years) that we've missed the boat. We are well past the point where we could stop it. We're in the 'find out' stage now.

Yet people keep having kids and planning for the future like everything is going to be just fine. Can you not see what's happening? When's the last time you scraped bugs off your car windshield? They're all dying out. The biosphere is collapsing around us. But sure, keep contributing to your 401K. Keep talking about how the 'fertility crisis' is the big issue. Keep thinking that somehow windmills and recycling are going to save the planet. Tell me more about how voting is going to fix the problem. I feel like Kate Dibiasky saying we're all going to die while everyone around me wants to talk about their PTA, the latest social issue, or which politician they like.

(deep breath)

Yes. I do feel like my perception of reality is different than most people I know. I don't know most of humanity so I can't really say, but it sure seems like it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

What a good question! No, most of the time I feel I am stuck here with everyone else, in this timeline. Sometimes what I perceive diverges from those around me, other times it converges. But I think of those as different filters overlaying the same reality; although I don't believe this is the only reality in existence, it does feel like a ride we cannot get off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

I operate in el camino reálity. Miss me with that ranchero and canyonero nonsense.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

Yes because I can't comprehend how anyone else think or feel. I can empathize, but I cannot fully understand how they think or feel because I transpose my thoughts and feelings to what others perceive and think.

I am stuck in my head with my thinking and my feelings, but I will never know what it feels to not be me.

I'm fine with that, but it boggles my mind sometimes.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Yeah, asd/adhd does that to you when you see how other people function “normally” and how your hangups are wildly more uncontrollable over trivial things. Then you get the adhd on top of that. Focus is a highly ambivalent and fickle creature. Good times. The brain being the reality we each experience, I think people with neurodivergence actually do experience a different reality than normative people do.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

I didn't but then they killed harambe and now its like I fell through a crack in reality and entered a shitty distopian novel.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I used to... but now I don't.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

maybe we traded places

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Yep I'm somehow in a reality where everyone is loved by Crackhappy, but no one I know knows about this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Do most people live in a room chained to a bed and toilet, being gang banged by large women and doom scrolling Lemmy?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

You're one of the large women, aren't you.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I embrace your anarchistic and somewhat solipsistic views. I love you.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes. Everyone lives in the same objective reality of course but everyone experiences a unique subjective reality. Everyone has specific thoughts and feelings that nobody else has ever had. Some people are more unique than others depending on their age, environment, and life choices.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

I embrace your objective reality. I love you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Absolutely. Mostly because I don't consume much entertainment. Movies and TV really shape how people think.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

Anti corpos unite! I love you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Corpo propaganda do be like that

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

No, and if that is a powerful feeling (not "I'm autistic and see things differently", but "normal reality does not apply to me" somehow) then it might be something to check out with a medical professional.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

I hope you are a medical professional. Because check it out, I love you.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Being ND, yeah. Especially when one of the things common with what's different with me is that I often make weird associations that no one else sees.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Hopefully you will never be South Dakota. That would be weird. regardless of your dakotaness, I love you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

I thank my stars I'm not NT. Texas as a whole doesn't seem like it's all that great, let alone North Texas.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Oh boy. I apologize, I totally mistook your ND incorrectly. How does it feel to be non denominational?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I only recenlty learned I have had undiagnosed autism my whole life (in my thirties now), and being able to recontextualise that I literally did have an - on average - different way of experiencing reality, with some filters missing, some intuitive normalities just not developing, and my brain focusing in a different way, that's helping me a whole lot. Finally I don't have to gaslight myself into thinking I am just lacking will and strength of character to fit into this world, as that's what my socialisation had been instilling into me.

With having been obsessed with history and philosophy from a young age, I am also often not able to understand that the vast majority of people actually lives in a world where those things are at best superficially engaged with. Personally, at least at this moment of time, I think that is genuinely dangerous, because, oh boy, looking at the current material situation of the world and taking historical situations to estimate the possible consequences, things are not looking good. I firmly believe we need a globalised, socialist/communist mode of production and more short term, an international political infrastructure to organise the challenges ahead, but I fear it will only come about after things will be getting worse for quite some time, still.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Welcome to the doomer generation. I love you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You might enjoy the book "Climate Leviathan". It's about all that and draws on a lot of history and philosophy.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

That does indeed look right up my alley, thank you very much <3.

I'd also recommend "The Ecological Rift: Capitalism’s War on the Earth" to anyone interested, for probably a bit more polemic piece that, from what I see from “Climate Leviathan”'s description, probably roughly argues around similar dynamics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Yes, we live in a world were many serious people with serious credetrials can't see lasting. and people go to a Taylor Swift concert or a Football game

"I see no way out of revolutionary changes to how we live today .... it is too late for non-radical futures" - Professor Kevin Anderson

https://social.rebellion.global/@ScientistRebellion/110235597189756736

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/07/un-expert-human-rights-climate-crisis-economy

Outgoing special rapporteur David Boyd says ‘there’s something wrong with our brains that we can’t understand how grave this is’

I am a stranger in a strange land

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

What's really disturbing is when they go to a Swift Football game. I love you.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

If people realized how bad shit is about to get they would be using bombs in museums instead of canned soup.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

Following on from the previous person's travelling lifestyle and only working when they want to work, and work on things that they want to, I have children young children which makes it a little more difficult. However, there have been times in my life when I've just packed up, jumped in my vehicle and driven wherever. It's very liberating.

This type of thinking may come from my near death accident 23 years ago or maybe it's a personal trait that I've always had, don't know. Personally speaking, believing in the system that's presented to us from a very young age is not healthy for society or yourself, sometimes you just need to embrace the fear of uncertainty and go for it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

It's great that you're no longer near death. I love you.

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