Reality as Story: Sensibility and Orientation

Abstract

Derealization is generally regarded as belonging to the Dissociative Group, but the disassociation based on Mind-Body Dualism cannot explain its conscious total-loss of reality. It is rather a matter of transcendental Orientation that realizes situations in a story. A story is people’s philosophy to learn things even from the experience of others. However, it is often told with Negative Plots, so we have to solve the mystery. A story tells itself and we can do nothing but listen. As well as traveling abroad, modernization was a story. The Renaissance asked us for respective responsibility as Single-Everyman. Although the direction wandered in the Revolutionary Age, after that, populist leaders promoted the Industrial Revolution and Colonial Imperialism. However, their modernization story required us to be homogeneous Everyman, the Masses. Existentialism warned, but even Totalitarianism was comfortable for us and the Mass-Everyman worked well as the accumulator of our intelligence. We arrange things even now in the Mass-Everyman Orientation and it guarantees us their reality. However, it is impotent for private problems. Similarly, Over-Arousal of Sensibility follows Derealization by the stopping of the Orientation. In addition, the decline of the middle-class as the matrix of Mass-Everyman dismantles it, and various Celeb Orientations were instead proposed and disseminated. That causes confusion and conflict not only within society but also within individuals. Without firm Orientation, we have lost reality for everything.