a misnomer

Most of what we know about the world or living is nothing but second hand. Partly due to human nature, the world or life through our incapacity and transience was, has been, and will always be reduced into concepts, ideas, and narratives. We, now and then with pauses in between, merely inteprete and reinterprete, basing upon these thinking blocks that come mostly handed down. Our existence thus basically consists of living to develop, and developing to live, those concepts, ideas and narratives--old and new. To get-along along this ephemera, some collective agreement about the world is needed in all its macro and microcosms. I suppose this is what’s called: collective consciousness. With it we partake in maintaining and establishing the natural fences of realities, material or immaterial alike, while continuing the ones available to us handy. ... More