But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us.
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However, no two people see the external world in exactly the same way. To every separate person a thing is what he thinks it is - in other words, not a thing, but a think.
From the perspective of mere representation, the external world always remains only a phenomenon.
I guess I strongly feel that we cannot pretend that the Third World is not part of our world. We cannot say 'OK, there's that problem over there, let's just close our eyes' - we cannot do that.
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Everybody has a world, and that world is completely hidden until we begin to inquire. As soon as we do, that entire world opens to us and yields itself. And you see how full and complex it is.
So, we, as human beings, live in a very imprecise world. A world where our perceptions of reality are far more important than actual reality.
You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
On the other hand, for the whole human being who wills, feels, and represents, external reality is given simultaneously and with as much certitude as his own self.
We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.
We cannot pretend that reality is different from what it is.