People Don’t Like Facts

Well, if the video above isn’t proof enough, let me expand on the idea.

People HATE Facts

What do I mean by this?  Very simply this; given a choice between an easily proven fact that is just a LITTLE uncomfortable to understand or accept and a complete load of nonsense that has been made up (either on the spot or over the course of centuries) MOST people will choose the nonsense (sometimes called a “truth”) over the fact.

Examples Of Reality (FACTS)

1. You will die

2. You will have times of discomfort

3. You won’t always be happy

4. People you love will die

5. Change is inevitable

I could go on, but you get the idea.

Examples Of Belief (Truths)

1. You will live forever (here or in some magical kingdom)

2. You will always be comfortable

3. You can have everything

4. Somebody will always provide for you

5. Things will go on as usual

Why Are We Like This?

We are like this because it’s EASIER to be like this.  It’s easier to believe in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy.  It’s EASIER to believe that all you have to do is VOTE for somebody and they’ll take care of you.  It’s EASIER to watch movies ABOUT real life than to EXPERIENCE real life.

Life Can Be Hard

Living can be very difficult.  You are reading this, so you probably live in a highly advanced country.  Technology can make life VERY EASY indeed, and has, for the most part, made millions of people’s lives better AND longer.  MOST people DON’T live in highly advanced cultures, and their lives are VERY harsh indeed.  Most of us in the “Western World” have NO IDEA what it’s like NOT to have three meals a day, access to clean drinking water and medicine on demand.

Excitement

Instead, we get our excitement by watching movies about OTHER people (actors) going through tough times, and IMAGINING how great we would be in those situations.  In reality, most of use would be really CRAP at the things we see in the movies, and most of us would simply give-up and/or die.

Entertainment

Hollywood and the rest of the world of entertainment does a great job of “make believe”.  Even movies “based on a true story” are dramatizations of what REALLY happened.  Soap Operas are extremely popular because anything and EVERYTHING happens in them.  One day a person is destitute, the next, they are a surgeon.  Broke one day, the next they own a multi-billion dollar industry.  It’s all NONSENSE.

These things make us think that they COULD happen to us, if we just HOPE enough for it.  Or pray enough.  Or wish enough.

While these things can be comforting, eventually you have to accept reality.

Reality Is Fun!

It’s only when you go out into the world and really LIVE that life, with all of its difficulties, that life becomes fun.  While you sit at home and watch the world through your TV, or at the movies, you may just as well be dead.

Go out and live.  REALLY LIVE!  You don’t have much time, and you’ve probably wasted a lot of it already.

Luke.