(An extension of This ongoing story):
Here is a mental excursion that might make clearer to you what has been herein labeled man’s primary and secondary realities, and perhaps open your eyes to the normally un-noted, quite different roles they play in the lives of men. It could even lead you to just the crack amidst it all that you need to facilitate your Great Escape from the routine maddening inner turmoil that the mundane accept as consciousness.
Imagine that you are an unseen alien with no hearing, who is able to hover just above Earth and observe all that goes on here and then ponder: How would you find man distinguished from any other creature? You can see his actions, but can hear nothing he says, nor understand his writing. If you had to base your judgment solely on what you see him do, with no knowledge of anything else about him, would he even appear to be meaningfully different from any other animal?
You would see man and other creatures eat, drink, sleep and procreate, and would understand these activities as essential to their survival. But after these you would see man engaged in various activities singular to him, (so-called, cultural ones), and what would you – could you imagine to be their purpose? In the activities he alone pursues, you can see what he is doing, but not hear what he is saying: What would you make of them?
Primary activities are performed in silence, while all second reality activities require speech. Eating, drinking, sleeping and sex need no comment by any creature, while all of the activities unique to man make no sense to an outside observer without same. Here is the fault line for the few. They indeed would make no sense to even him were it not for the accompanying, explanatory speech and its species wide acceptance.
Physical reality speaks-for-itself, while man’s mentally derived second reality must have man continually speaking for it. It is not only to explain what it is doing and justify its existence, but also just to maintain the appearance that it actually has one.
J.