|
Maybe it's the title that's throwing me.
Regardless:
re⋅al
1 /ˈriəl, ril/
–adjective
1. true; not merely ostensible, nominal, or apparent: the real reason for an act.
2. existing or occurring as fact; actual rather than imaginary, ideal, or fictitious: a story taken from real life.
3. being an actual thing; having objective existence; not imaginary: The events you will see in the film are real and not just made up.
There's not a lot of room for ambiguity there.
It occurs to me that we may actually be having a different discussion from the one I thought we were having. If we want to talk about the insubstantiality of ideas, there may be something there in the direction that you seem to want to go in. A right is not something that I can hold in my hand. I cannot barter it for goods or services. I cannot steal it from you, and I cannot show it to you. It is not concrete, and it's existence does depend on the people who hold to it. Is that what you're trying to convey?
__________________
I wake up in the morning more tired than before I slept
I get through cryin' and I'm sadder than before I wept
I get through thinkin' now, and the thoughts have left my head
I get through speakin' and I can't remember, not a word that I said
- Ben Harper, Show Me A Little Shame
|