Venkatesh Rao on Substack

Reality can only be understood sensibly by adopting the opposite messages to Twitter. The world is complex and requires steady focus to be understood; it needs to be thought about and comprehended slowly; and most important truths will be unpopular when they are first articulated.

Above all, the real is arbitrary. For to be a realist (in art or in life) is to acknowledge that all things might be other than they are. That there is no design, no intention, no aesthetic or moral or teleological imprimatur but, rather, the equivalent of Darwin’s great vision of a blind, purposeless, ceaseless evolutionary process that yields no

The definition of 'reality' is: That which does not change. What you truly are, does that change? Does it have any substance? Can you find it?

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ~Philip K. Dick Semper Gumby!

Reality doesn’t matter. If you can change something’s mind enough, it’ll believe whatever reality you choose.”