Changing the Real

Another big terrorist attack and the phase “the rule has changed” suddenly proliferates in all new media like weeds in my garden. What they really mean is that their perception of the world has changed. The world itself, and therefore “the rule”, has not changed at all. Just because you are shaken out of you illusion does not mean that the world or its rules has changed at all. You may end up dealing with the world in different fashion, but the world remains the same. The advantage of saying the rule has changed is that you can at once do different things, act with paranoia and not admit that you were wrong. The intrusion of reality only changes the Real, our (self-) delusion.