The Illusion

People are blind! It has come to my attention, not so much just recently, but recently enough that I feel that it requires blogging about. What I'm referring to is the fact that people refuse to see the obvious, whatever it may be. This concept is by no means foreign to me at all especially over the course of the last year.

What makes me think that this is a note worthy issue is the correlation that I've made with a Child Development class that I'm taking and the general populous. We studied a concept called Appearance-Reality Distinction, in which children in the early stages of child development, between the ages of 2-7, lack the ability to disassociate any given concept from a given object. For example, to a 5 year old, if you tell them that you are a bear they will believe you because they cant comprehend the fact that just because you called yourself a bear doesn't make you an actual bear. Hence the reason why children will run from you when you say your a tiger and then chase them around the room.

As we age into our adult lives we obviously learn to tell the difference between a bear and human being. However, in our very mundane lives, I argue that the masses suffer from this inability to disassociate the concept from the object. You may wonder how? Well to understand this may require some thinking outside of the box.

Think of a chair. Think about how throughout our entire lives a chair has simply been... A chair. Now ask yourself this seemingly ridiculous question. How do you know its a chair? Well you may say " I just do" or " because it looks like a chair". What people fail to realize is that the word "chair" is merely a symbolic representation that was assigned to the object. Simply put, a name.
This is important if you look at what damage that can do to a person. Some people, no matter how much evidence and proof you present to them, they cant see anything but the concept. The biggest example is religion. Even if you give them the most evidence proving religion wrong or some of its claims they will never see otherwise.

Just give that a thought.