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Maybe simple perception is what it has always been about. As I've grown older and observe my own youth and others in theirs, I see errors in perception, causing angst. My persecutions, my esteem, my love and my joys; all perception: how I view myself and the world. What then is real? Is all this just some grand playtime, this existence of ours? Is it all just a "Matrix-the-movie" observational setting?

Of course, how we view the world, IS the world, to any single one of us. Yes, this is obvious. But then what is truth anyway? It is a perception no doubt, but it must be a perception in adherence with something solid behind the curtain if we are to stand on anything.

I think the world used to know what that solidity was years ago, but now that solid ground is quickly vanishing. Relativity, though by its very nature is fluid, has become the rallying point, the great liquidator of anything to stand on.
For instance: my dad used to talk about growing up and being a "bad boy". He was the dude dressed as the "rebel": riding motorcycles, partying it up, et-cetera. Most of us have had the same, or still do the same amount of "badness". I certainly enjoyed partaking in "bad" behavior growing up in small town Montana, or trying to drink away my angst into college, like a fish. The only difference between my dad's day, and my own (Generation X, and on to Generation Y), is that "bad" can now be acceptably rejected. "Bad" isn't really "bad" anymore; it is only perception. Who is to say what "bad" or "good" really is? Who or what is there to stand on anyway? And this goes for any and everything.

But to use such "narrow-minded" terms as BAD or GOOD, we must be assuming there is a standard or line of demarcation that says: "to travel down this side is increasingly BAD, and to travel down this other side is increasingly GOOD". To say "I want to stand on THIS, and I think that this is GOOD for others to follow also, is to make a stand on an absolute, something I consider to be true. But then I am right back to where I started from"isn't where I'm standing only perception?" Ultimately, you can't prove what you are standing on is truth. There are no absolutes in the grand scheme of philosophical inquiry to make "absolutely" sure. But there is EVIDENCE isn't there? We are assuming then that evidence has not been given to us by some evil Genie (Descartes), or that we can even trust our own logic (Kierkegaard). Oh God! (and wow, I'm exclaiming here

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