The Shared Hallucination

Our entire civilisation is built on a foundation of shared hallucinations. The most unsettling part of this realisation is that society avoids any notion that it’s all an illusion. When ‘celebrities’ die, the news is all about their part in this illusion, so that the show can go on. A hallucination is all in the mind, and we’re bound to mental constructs, like a religion where we all share the same confused way of seeing.

Hallucination: the absence of reality.

We hope that those above us conversing behind closed doors meet for our benefit, when it’s nothing of the sort. They are the magicians.

We see our football team … they are not ours. We see the military fighting for our country … it’s not ours. We join a religion … it’s not ours. We have our family … they are not ours. We just believe that we belong.

We all in the hallucination, until we stop believing.