The Politics of Reality

A plane disappears without a trace. Hundreds of people in a number of countries now attempt to solve this conundrum—how does a large plane with over two hundred people vanish?

Days go by and more questions and few answers. Now people begin to spin all manner of possible scenarios—conjectures, not based on any tangible evidence.

Tonight I heard someone suggest extraterrestrial aliens. Not only do we not not know the fate of those on board, but it is disquieting to be in a place of possibilities, but no answers.

At one point in human history suggesting that something fell off the earth had a plausible ring, but now we want a scientific response, something that coincides with our view of reality.

And what is reality? One dictionary definition : "all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you." Another definition: "the world or state of things as they actually exist, as opposed to an idealistic or notational idea of them."

Yet we surround ourselves with reality television which purports to be real, but is often staged or contrived. It's a ruse, an artifice.

All we do know is that the reality of all those on board changed. That is not an illusion.