Blind-Spots

It's funny how one can have a false model of the world, and live life perceiving aspects of their environment through said false model without any recognition of all the little pointers that might indicate, to someone who didn't have all the blind spots that said false model relies on, that that model isn't actually how things are.

Example: I used to think that everyone who worked for a business - even a retail business - cared about the livelihood and all the policies of said institution to-the-T. That perception got shattered when I was 15, when I was wandering into a mall shoe store with a friend, got asked by the (young - but older than me) female shoe-store-clerks, "How's it going?" - I replied with "We're just looking, thanks" - to which they retorted, with a laugh, "I just asked how you were doing, we don't give a rat's ass if you buy anything!" -- It shattered my perception. Until then, out of all my customer-service interactions, I had been so fixated on all the times/ways that the employees of any given store had been acting like company employees, and had a complete blindspot to all the ways in which or times when they were just acting like shmoes waiting for the end of their shitty shift to come.

If reality is so easily tainted by subjective perception, with so many blind-spots, it begs the question of how accurate anyone's perception of the world is. And more: If we base many more of our thoughts and actions on a seemingly very easily WRONG perception of the way things are, and come to conclusion after conclusion-based-on-conclusion from these thoughts and perceptions, then why not, if we don't like something about the way things are, can't we just happily assume we're WRONG, and decide things ARE the way we want them, since we were probably wrong in the first place? Or maybe the answer is not to think at all.