Consensus Reality Quotes

“Barack Obama contradicts the image they have in their head for what a President looks like and sounds like, and it unsettles them on a subconscious level.

And then somebody presents an answer to why they feel uncomfortable. He's not from here. He wasn't born in this country, he was born in Kenya.

It doesn't matter that you or I can disprove that theory six ways to Sunday.

There's a part of their brains that feels relieved, because that lie gives them a sense of order.

They aren't bad people for feeling unsettled by a black President. They aren't racist. They're just smart enough to see through the ruse.

And that's when things get very dangerous for us.”
― James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

“The more people believe in something, the more true that thing becomes. The more reality tips in the favor of that belief.”
― James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

“Collective belief shapes the world, so everything is a little bit true, or has the potential to be true.”
― James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth, Vol 1: The End of the World

“We are afraid of the unknown, of what is beyond our perception of reality, which is why we buy into consensus reality, pretending to know who and where we are, what is real and unreal.

Yet the unknown is waiting for each one of us behind the corner and sooner or later it will prevail. Then, of whom we pretend to be, of where we are, nothing will be left.”
― Franco Santoro

“Is he sick because he sees this? Or does he see this because he is sick?”
― Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip

“The world we see ‘out there’ is a reflection of our cleverly molded shared consciousness, our collective belief installed through manipulation of our mimetic desire, not a given ‘thing’ that can’t be changed. This means, as in the adage, that we can heal the world only if we heal ourselves.”
― Sol Luckman, Get Out of Here Alive: Inner Alchemy & Immortality