#pseudo-reality

[libertymiddleway]

The Nature of Pseudo-Reality

[wakinglithiumflower-blog]

Because today we live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups... So I ask, in my writing, What is real? Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo-realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms. I do not distrust their motives; I distrust their power. They have a lot of it. And it is an astonishing power: that of creating whole universes, universes of the mind. I ought to know. I do the same thing.

Philip K. Dick

[pleasesoar-blog]

Pseudo-reality From Word Wars

The rough tumble of words in haste

confirmed the earthly suspicion

about your sudden detachment

on what's supposed to be

a passionate camaraderie between us.

The words burst in ardent flames

licking my inflamed tongue,

knocking me off-balance

and robbing me off from speech.

You extinguished me from lashing back at you.

And I see myself falling, falling

in the abyss of your dismissal, 

caged in iron-bars of self-loathe

but not before I take the risk

of hanging myself in a limbo

that not even your accusations can break.