The only lies we live are the ones we tell ourselves are true. Think about it. If you know something is untrue, then you are not living it.

Whether we understand it similarly, or not, everyone lives the reality they imaginally create out of prospects availed in their social culture. Everyone is creative, even if somehow in ignorance, they only know to create destruction.

Our problem is that there are so many conflicting themes of "purpose-ness", of other people's intentions. Yet, as Ernst Cassirer pointed out many decades ago, "The task of the individual is to make sense of the senses."

My own Steemit posts deal with the possibilities given in Cassirer's maxim. I invite all interested in such matters to follow my posts @johojo. The most recent, Taking care of things looks at the rapidly changing circumstances of our current stage of "reality". My first post introduces myself and the path to ideas that animate my Steemit posts. All of these are in support and furtherance of my online project Manifest Orders, which is about the various modes of individual attentiveness and how they have generated all the social and cultural manifestations of human history. Manifest Orders is an ongoing project; I first air ideas and welcome comments about it in my Steemit posts. The project is freely available for download at no charge under Creative Commons license.

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