When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People have always made assumptions about me. I become very territorial about my identity because it's been hijacked by so many people with their own projections.
People want reality that tells them how right they are all the time.
For me, the world that I inhabit in reality is probably a very different world than the one people expect that I would be in.
Other people's opinion of you does not have to become your reality.
We are assuming that we exist, that there is reality, and that the matter of which we are made is real.
There is this assumption that much of what I write is about my life, and that simply is not true.
You can't rely on your own perception when it comes to anything. You can always be proved wrong.
People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections.
Sometimes you have to look reality in the eye, and deny it.
There is a tendency to seek an objective account of everything before admitting its reality.