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Oddly relevant today when a person can choose from among different flavors of "reality."
A young man and woman graduate from the "creche," a school where the children are totally isolated from both the natural world and from adult society. The reader watches them each construct, clue by clue, the meaning and structure of reality. They use the materials available: personal experience and messages given by society, and they each arrive at very different visions of what is happening, what is import ...more
A young man and woman graduate from the "creche," a school where the children are totally isolated from both the natural world and from adult society. The reader watches them each construct, clue by clue, the meaning and structure of reality. They use the materials available: personal experience and messages given by society, and they each arrive at very different visions of what is happening, what is import ...more
The Inverted World is a compelling story about how our perceptions are shaped by social and cultural expectations. It is a story about the evolution of human understanding and knowledge, and how the limits of our knowledge can undermine our perception of reality. This book should be required reading in every high school curriculum.
It was an interesting book about perception and wanting to believe something is true even if it is wrong.
The city must keep moving. To fall too far behind the optiumum means certain death. Helward Mann learns this and more when he joins the Futures Guild. However, there is a growing unrest in the city from the general population who don't believe. What is the reality of their situation? They will soon be tested.
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Sep 20, 2024
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marked it as to-read
