The addiction we never see as such is the addiction to our super-narrow system of thinking. We're addicted to this thinking because it provides us with our idea of who we are, which we are frightened to let go of. 

Our approach to addiction is strictly mechanical in nature (which is to say, it's all about obeying some sort of 'external authority') but the thing about this is that it necessarily involved being addicted to being told what to do by that external authority...

Everything about us is a bluff - it's a bluff that is automatically validated by the social system that we are embedded in, but it's a bluff all the same. It is - moreover - a bluff that is very hard for us to see... 

The way everyday 'normal' life works is that we are sublimely unaware that we are imposing a logical framework on the world and then only taking notice of stuff that agrees with this FW - if we were to start being aware of this covert action (which the mind is constantly carrying out) then our 'normal, everyday life' would quickly become impossible for us. Things would have to change. This however is precisely what we DON'T want to happen...

The way everyday 'normal' life works is that we are sublimely unaware that we are imposing a logical framework on the world and then only taking notice of stuff that agrees with this FW - if we were to start being aware of this covert action (which the mind is constantly carrying out) then our 'normal, everyday life' would quickly become impossible for us. Things would have to change. This however is precisely what we DON'T want to happen...

Every time we think (which is the overt action) we also perform another action, a covert one, which is to assume a context within which that thought, that 'statement of fact', actually makes sense...

When we think we create a virtual reality construct which we proceed to inhabit as if it weren't a virtual reality construct...

'The loss of the child' - Part 2