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Seismic shifts

This article was published on November 22, 2017 and may be out of date. To maintain our historical record, The Cascade does not update or remove outdated articles.
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I believe reality functions much like plate tectonics. Perceptions change slowly — nobody notices the gradual shift. Then, millions of years later (or seemingly millions of years later), self-proclaimed smart men tell us the way things are: we’ve observed, based on the never-changing processes of the world, that everything is knowable and we’re the ones who know it.

But, like a precarious rock shifting suddenly along a fault line, all at once, everything is no longer the way it once was — if you believe in abrupt reality shifts, complete loss of orientation. Could physical laws change, too? What if we carry our history and consciousness with us into this new way of things, but nothing else? The ocean turns red, the sky folds inside out, sentience becomes more of an afterthought to a flagrant gluttony for pleasure. Craziness. How would we explain it?

A world where everything you know is no longer the way things are. It would be funny if this happened far more frequently than we realized, and arguing over who knows more about something that never happened is just a game of distraction.

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