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Some of the most powerful ways in which people adapt
to new situations is through: imagination, fantasy,
dreams, visions, role acting, playing games, pretending,
etc. In these ways new possibilities are recognized,
developed, and realized---made real. Visions of new
possibilities are not perceptions of present realities,
but anticipations of possible futures. Our ability to
pretend makes it possible for us to realize new creations
of new beings. Through our ability to pretend we can
shake the foundations of our present world and create new
cultures, civilizations, technologies, sciences,
religions, philosophies, cities, rural communities, etc.
All too often, however, we pervert our ability to
pretend. Not all pretending leads to the realization of
the image of pretention. Not all visions can be realized
through our finite powers of pretention. Often we are not
willing to pay the price required for realization of our
vision---yet we pretend that our vision is real. We act
as if we have paid the price and realized our vision---
when we have not done so. Through pretension we deceive
ourselves and others, and create collusions against
reality and its love, power, and justice. Our ability to
pretend through perversion is thus what enables us to be
fundamentally dishonest about ourselves and others.
Our ability to pretend enables us to live lies: that
we will not die, that we are more beautiful than we are,
that resources are not limited, that we can perfect
ourselves, that the knowledge of good and evil promotes
communal dialogue, that improved techniques are the keys
to meaningful living, that power without love does not
corrupt justice, that love without power can promote
justice, that justice without power can realize itself,
etc. Through such pretentions we lose touch with
ourselves and others. We become alienated from reality
and from each other---the condition called sin.
Pretending which loses touch with the difference
between the possible and the impossible becomes
pretentious and destructive. The ability to pretend can
be perverted.
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