Great writing, Zat.

The rub, to me, is differentiating the unreal and subtle but relatively insignificant parts of life (“Did I really just eat that third bowl of popcorn while mindlessly watching Mad Men?”) and the subtle but insidious and lethal unreal, and outright lies, that kill (too many Trump references to list so fill in the blank with your own?).

Yes we are all reweaving our narratives to remain self-concordant and keeping our fragile ego pacified that we’re not bad little boys and girls, so this is understandable. Yet many of ‘us’ (always ‘them’ and not ‘me’, right?) are outright sociopaths/psychopaths (up to 1 in 20 people according to research, summarized by Dr. Martha Stout in “The Sociopath Next Door”) whose lies, especially if we’re in leadership/authority positions, kill — and they don’t have moral or ethical quandaries afterwards. What differentiates the former from the latter? Don’t both continue living life after their lies?

Plus, how do we differentiate the voices that are in the heads of ‘normal people’ as well as the creatives and artistics from those of the schizophrenics? We all have those voices in our heads…repeating our own twisted versions of our reality.

I don’t have answers, but I love the questions…