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dive for a Monday, anews totw!

Truth & reality are slippery like eels. You think you've grabbed hold of it but the tighter you hold, the faster it slips out of your grasp.

I'm not a relativist, I don't think just anything goes, I don't think the things of the world are merely socially constructed. I think there is a world of things, a solid world, but it is not in an 'out there' as opposed to my 'in here'.

For me, I am an anarchist because I neither want to tell anyone else how to see/believe/understand truth or reality or even if there are such things, nor do I want anyone else telling me how to see/believe/understand truth or reality.
It seems clear to me, though, that these questions require sincere, thoughtful, rigorous, lighthearted engagement that most people, anarchists included, do not have the desire to do. Most people are fine with received notions of Truth & Reality, anarchists included.

So, my weird experiences opened me to other ways of seeing, being, understanding the world and a integral part of that is an anarchy that can accommodate all understandings. I'm still trying to figure that out, of course. How can we, in our myriad & often opposed understandings, share this physical world?