I agree completely. But knowing that we don’t directly perceive reality is only a problem if we lazily delude ourselves into presuming that we do directly experience it, that we aren’t essentially map makers. Since human perceptions appear to have always worked along these lines, it seems like popular idealism of a naive sort to say that it is really a problem. I think that the real problem is how people prefer to deny this. It is relatively easy to get a person to stop believing something, but nearly impossible to prevent them from simply choosing to believe something else, rather than to dispense with belief altogether.
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