Reality simply is. It needs no explanation, and in fact any explanation will always come short of the truth. Reality is not words, it isn't a concept. Through language, technology, science, and a host of other things, we have become able to describe the world around us to such a degree that we mistake the description as actually being the way things are. Hence why you get this mixed up LGBTBBQ crowd who feels they need a special word just for themselves, forgetting that all words are a symbol pointing at reality, rather than the reality itself.
This confusion of words and concepts with reality is essentially the root of all arguments whether they be religious, political, personal, whatever, "I don't agree with the words you have chosen to describe reality!". Well no matter what word you choose it will never be that actual reality, and therein lies the problem, we actually feel that when say the word "I am X thing" it truly means something. We become deeply attached to this group of words we use to describe ourselves, and when someone jumps in and starts using other words we get all in a tizzy.
Our society on a very fundamental level confuses reality with concepts. I don't know if there is a way to get this point across easily in a meme, well scratch that, there is, but this is a point that while easy to explain is not easy for the person receiving the explanation to actually understand it. Once you see it though it's incredibly basic, it's absolutely obvious, words are not the reality they represent, but our society has deeply conditioned us to fight against seeing through this fact.
What's funny is that the LGBTBBQ crowd clearly understand this concept on some level, as when they say that gender is a social construct they are completely correct, all language is a construct, a symbol, and thus not real in that sense. The mistake they make is that while they say gender is a social construct they don't actually believe the words coming out of their own mouth. They take hormones, they undergo surgery, they change their clothes, wear makeup, speak in a different way, why do all these things to change something that amounts to a social construct? These actions only make sense if it isn't a social construct, if words aren't just symbols but actually have some kind of reality themselves such that changing them has an impact on your experience, but this isn't the case whatsoever!
I can't even begin to imagine how someone could become anymore mixed up than this, this is truly peak 🤡🌎, anything else would just be a variation on the same clown world theme.
Reality simply is. It needs no explanation, and in fact any explanation will always come short of the truth. Reality is not words, it isn't a concept. Through language, technology, science, and a host of other things, we have become able to describe the world around us to such a degree that we mistake the description as actually being the way things are. Hence why you get this mixed up LGBTBBQ crowd who feels they need a special word just for themselves, forgetting that all words are a symbol pointing at reality, rather than the reality itself.
This confusion of words and concepts with reality is essentially the root of all arguments whether they be religious, political, personal, whatever, "I don't agree with the words you have chosen to describe reality!". Well no matter what word you choose it will never be that actual reality, and therein lies the problem, we actually feel that when say the word "I am X thing" it truly means something. We become deeply attached to this group of words we use to describe ourselves, and when someone jumps in and starts using other words we get all in a tizzy.
Our society on a very fundamental level confuses reality with concepts. I don't know if there is a way to get this point across easily in a meme, well scratch that, there is, but this is a point that while easy to explain is not easy for the person receiving the explanation to actually understand it. Once you see it though it's incredibly basic, it's absolutely obvious, words are not the reality they represent, but our society has deeply conditioned us to fight against seeing through this fact.
"all words are a symbol pointing at reality, rather than the reality itself"
This unpacks their insanity in one sentence!
What's funny is that the LGBTBBQ crowd clearly understand this concept on some level, as when they say that gender is a social construct they are completely correct, all language is a construct, a symbol, and thus not real in that sense. The mistake they make is that while they say gender is a social construct they don't actually believe the words coming out of their own mouth. They take hormones, they undergo surgery, they change their clothes, wear makeup, speak in a different way, why do all these things to change something that amounts to a social construct? These actions only make sense if it isn't a social construct, if words aren't just symbols but actually have some kind of reality themselves such that changing them has an impact on your experience, but this isn't the case whatsoever!
I can't even begin to imagine how someone could become anymore mixed up than this, this is truly peak 🤡🌎, anything else would just be a variation on the same clown world theme.
"why do all these things to change something that amounts to a social construct?"
Indeed. You nailed it again.