Idealist: I have here a fact that proves our Great Ideal.
Realist: That fact is not representative. Your Idealist brethren work to destroy anyone who brings facts to light that disprove you Ideal, and so the remaining publications naturally all support your Ideal. See here in this little known book for instance...
Idealist: Arrest the doubter and burn the books!
Many people do not base their thoughts on what reality really is, but on what those around them say. And guess what, those around them ALSO base their thoughts on what others around them say and feel. But that is NOT reality.
So if you were a group that wanted to dominate a pyramid-like society, would you help people learn rational, logical thinking, or would you emotionally mould everyone by showing them artificial "others" (actors) and fabricate opinions in that way?
Groups that tell you WHAT to think want you NOT to really think, but want to dominate you. Real teachers tell you HOW to think, and thereby liberate you. Mentioning facts is not dominating thought, it is intimidating those who mention facts that is domination. Training people to self-censor and practice doublethink is not real teaching, but enforcing the domination system. Idealists always demand absolutes, because Idealists cannot afford exceptions.
In many situations the abstract conflict between the Idealist and the realist can be seen. One could even call it the conflict between the Idealist and reality. So many times Idealists bash their heads against the wall, trying to change what always reverts to its natural state, trying to force the world into an unnatural state.
Teach a man WHAT to think and you are part of domination. Teach a man HOW to think and you give them choice and respect them having their own free will. We must do without dogmas and Ideals, not because they are not worthy, but because they are openings for manipulation. Realism is self-defense, self-preservation, self-interest.
It is time to become a realist. Not to give in, to surrender to the way things are, to give up, or to stop trying to improve things. None of that. Consider your situation. Do not use mental short-cuts that you think are your own. Some mental short-cuts have evolved in nature, but others are lethal constructs, injected into your mind by the manipulators.
If we want in our soul to survive, we must wake up. We must become realists. And then all else will flow naturally. Repeat after me: I will uncover some true fact that is hated by the dominators, and I will keep that fact alive within me and liberate others by propagating it, against the anti-reality enforcement superstructure.
