Who Decides What Reality is?

Whenever I write, I attempt to remind myself of the absurdity of reality, and that even what we do understand, makes no real sense. The sheer fact that anything is there, is still an insurmountable mystery. It is the great unanswerable question, how did this all come to be? The Big Bang theory, although popular, is only a theory, and even if proven true cannot truly answer the question. If it were to be confirmed people would ask, how did the Big Bang come to occur? And the quest would continue.

Knowing this, we must recognise that what we consider reality, is but a pixel upon a screen. We know only a grain of sand in all the oceans of the earth. Yet what even is our reality? The majority of the “developed” world spend their free time gazing upon celebrities, “stars” and reality television. If an alien were to descend from space and observe us, they would look to our biggest points of attention, and Reality television they would find.

Yet, for such a concept to exist, it would imply we have more than just a flicker of knowledge of our reality.

For you see, the concept of reality is malleable. What is reality to a dog, is entirely different to what is reality to a human. And what is reality to a child in Nepal, may be the apocalypse to someone from California. Those who create reality TV shows aren’t physicists or philosophers intending to…