Comfortably Numbed
We have evolved to survive not to see what is there.
We have developed filters,
and only see what we absolutely need to
for our own well-being.
If, all of a sudden, we saw reality as it is
we would probably go extinct,
being unprepared,
being too specialized,
blocking out all else
that does not keep us safe
inside a narrow spectrum.
The reality-video game
is designed to take us to the next level;
it gives us survival tools, time, next steps,
but if we ever got to the highest level
of this game of realization,
we might well be too enlightened
to evermore live within the dark
that we now consider to be the light.
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