Delusional

7 weeks into the NFL football season, there are millions of people in this country scouring their fantasy football rosters every day, devoting more mental and emotional energy into winning their fantasy football leagues than they are putting into their jobs or even their marriages. It’s called fantasy football. It is not real. It is a fantasy. But many people who play fantasy football act as if they are actual NFL General Managers and believe that the decisions, they make for their teams are as important as the ones real General Managers make.

It is a fantasy. It is a delusion, as is most of the rest of our lives in modern day America. People are spending more and more time on the Internet, in cyberspace, playing video games, wearing virtual reality headsets – living in a make-believe world. It is all made up. It is all a delusion. Nothing about those worlds, nothing about those realities is actually real. The screens which create our reality are simply the confluence of millions of colored pixels derived from thousands of combinations of zeros and ones.

None of it is real. It is all a mirage. But we react to the images we see on our screens emotionally and mentally as if they were real. But believing they are real doesn’t make them real; it only makes them real to us. And what we see as real is so fleeting, like Snapchat – what pops up on our screens disappears seconds after we see it. We are living in this unreality, believing in these computer-generated delusions which is causing untold amount of harm to individuals and society. Maybe the reason why so many people are suddenly convinced that they are a member of the opposite sex, is because many young brains have been trained to live, think and believe in a world of delusion, and not of reality.