Suspension of disbelief
Under what circumstances would a human being in full awareness of the reality of our illusionary world be willing to participate in societal dogma to keep his fellow mortals happy? This question has been oscillating at the back of my head with immaculate consistency, gathering mass and thus inertia as time passes. Willing "suspension of disbelief" seems necessary to prevent alienation from your loved ones. They aren't aware of the nothingness this existence has to offer, but choose to stay infallible, unaware of eventual mortality, acting in sync with the principles of "Natural selection" to keep the wheels of evolution rolling. They are performing as programmed, while I rebel against the natural human construct like an anomaly. Can someone continue to lead two separate lives? One behaves with the reason of nothingness while the other happily follows the herd, driven by societal manifestation of life and being. The idea of deceit to one's own self can haunt...