In cartoons, they put words and thoughts in 'balloons'. It's an apt image--we ALL live in 'sensory bubbles'. All our senses funnel info to the brain, where it is processed into a kind of 'movie' that we live in. We can't peer into the other bubbles, so you never *really* KNOW what the guy across the room is thinking, or see things the way he does. Hell, 'his' sky might look red to you. But he calls it blue. That's consensual reality. That's the basis of communication, of shared ideas and experiences.

Most all the Good Things and all the Bad that have happened in the history of the human species have been a result of Communication, or the Lack Thereof. People mis-communicating by accident happens far less often than we are led by our leaders to believe. They mis-communicate deliberately. Government as practiced currently in the US is the art of extracting money from the People with promises, taking huge (and some not-so huge) bribes from corporations for favors and lying through your teeth about it all.

And they do, vote for, and support some REALLY grim, spooky stuff.Wars that kill millions so Raytheon, Haliburton et al have a nice fiscal year. The 3 Biggest Fallacies about our government Are: 1) They Wouldn't Do That, 2) If they did No Way Could They Keep It Secret, and 3) The Press Would Tell Us...

Once you start digging...we haven't been The Good Guys for a long time. If we ever were. Starting with 1953 in Iran, the CIA and 'allied forces' have done some of most out\trageous skullduggery, murder and mayhem since Stalin. Or Hitler's Gestapo--who were recruited to run the Puzzle Palace via Operation Paperclip. Prescott Bush, founder of the Bush Crime Family, laundered money for the Nazis. Had his bank closed, assets seized and was accused of treason.

But try to tell somebody who is still...'brainwashed' and they look at you like your hair's on fire.