There are a plethora of movements afoot whose goal it is to punish and condemn those who ‘do not see things as they really are’. I find this peculiarly absurd, since there is no objective position from which to examine or evaluate ‘reality’. All positions are subjective: this is what it means to be alive.

Those who prosecute this agenda are largely concerned with converting others to their positions, which are neither absolute, true, nor even really provable except in contexts which are far too limited (and incomplete) to compare to organismal or even personal experience.

While it is useful to have and establish such limited contexts, and to develop dependable tools within them, when these tools escape their proper applications and emerge into the common world of our relation and experience, the domineering and strangely contagious result is often catastrophic, and reminiscent of the greatest mistakes in human history.

These mistakes almost invariably involve the common propagation of crude models of identity, meaning, comparison and value — which masquerade as masterful, complete, and functionally ‘necessary’.