The Ego Realm just isn’t true of course; we all know it isn’t true, but that doesn’t mean but it isn’t real for the ego itself because it IS – it’s Very Real Indeed for the ego. It couldn’t be any realer, in fact! For every ego that ever was, bar none, the Egoic Delusion is the realist thing ever and there’s no point in trying to say otherwise. You might as well just suck it up and cut out all that pathetic whinging and whining…
This brings us up against what I like to call ‘the Reality Problem’, which is the inevitable result of the way in which we automatically and unconsciously struggle against reality (in what is essentially a doomed fashion). We’re doomed from the very onset of course but we keep on struggling just the same. We just won’t give up. We think that reality is Satan so if it against it with a religious fervour. We fight against reality with everything we’ve got and we say that God told us to do it but really Satan is controlling us the whole time and having a laugh about it too. That’s how it works – that’s how he plays us. That’s so-called ‘reality problem’ in a nutshell. One day scholars will write about it academic journals and that will be the devil’s work too! All that type of stuff is the devil’s work. It’s all ‘the effluence of Satan’.
No matter which way we turn we get snared. We get snared in the Serpentine Coils of the True Deceiver who is the one and only true Satan, the Master of all compliant egos. If your number is drawn then you’ll win a special prize – you’ll get to go on an intimate dinner date with your favourite AI pop star, or one of his/her many avatars. And – what’s more – it’s all taking place in the rich and tasty fantasy that is being rolled out in your head! You’ll receive VIP treatmentall the way, no expenses spared. It’s not so easy when you’re addicted to the Delusion World you know. It’s not as much fun as it looks, not by any means – you can run into all sorts of awkward situations this way, situations which will be thoroughly embarrassing for everyone concerned. Regret will be your middle name (and your first and last name too); you’ll never be able to look anyone in the eye ever again…
Fake friends in a fake world! Fake sentiments admirably expressed. Artificial happiness, piped in from a central boiler house. Piped in from a central station… Everything is regulated down here, you see – everything comes in standardised portions. Your joy comes in standard portions just as your misery does. You’re the Amazing Generic Man. You’re the AGM and you’ve tales to tell to tell that will make people’s hair stand on end! Yes, you’ve tales to tell and no mistake. Plenty of tales. No shortage of tales. No one will ever believe you, of course. No one will ever believe you but – then again – that pretty much goes without saying, wouldn’t you say?
This brings us back to the highly contentious issue of the so-called ‘Reality Problem’ which is – as we have said – where we are obliged (due to forces that we are profoundly unconscious of) to fight against reality without even knowing that there IS such a thing. This is of course an issue that doesn’t receive the attention it deserves. We like to gloss over it. We’re in a big hurry to gloss over it. Whilst the Egoic Delusion Realm is widely acknowledged by many people to be ‘the realest thing there is’, that doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a bad thing, of course. It could be good. It could be great. It could represent the solution to a Very Important Problem. Just imagine how good you would feel if science could finally crack it. How splendid you’d feel. Imagine if you heard it on the radio (or read about it in the Daily Snarf newspaper): “Earlier today – at a very important summit meeting of our Reptilian Overlords – a panel of very distinguished international experts released a statement saying that the Reality Problem is finally under control and that no one has to worry about it ever again.” …
