I think it has, but not the way you put it. Rather: we've shared reality for thousands of years, and that's why it worked. We've had the occasional lunatic who didn't share our reality, but they ran into a mammoth or tried to pet a sable tooth tiger. For the rest of us, it was easier. When you said "three mammoths behind the forest", I had a pretty good idea about what you were talking about.
> I just want to seriously ask, on a planet with 7 billion people scattered around the world how can you possibly expect everyone to share the same reality?
We don't need literally everyone anywhere on earth to share the same reality. We need a shared reality mostly with those we come in contact with, for practical reasons I'd say in a nation, but probably also in political blocs (though the details can very well get more fuzzy the further away somebody is). Can't have Europe think the Soviets are great while the US thinks they're terrible, that won't work in an alliance.
And we don't need to have everyone share it either, a super majority is enough. It's not an issue if you have 1% of people believing that reptilians are running the government and looking for politicians blinking sideways on TV. It starts to become a problem when you get larger groups that don't share reality. A small group of 1% will get carried away by the flow. That's much different with a group of 10, 20 or 30 percent.
> How is the reality of people from two completely different places in the world ever going to be the same?
It's not, but then again, even here on the internet, you're mostly speaking to people from your part of the world (geographically, but even more so culturally). It really doesn't matter whether you share reality with somebody you have no points of contact with. And, I think, it's much easier to even accept that somebody perceives reality differently when they're very clearly not like you. There might be a bit of a condescending tone of "oh, of course, they fell for the propaganda their government put out... well, that couldn't happen to me", but it's much more acceptable for a Chinese person to have a drastically different world view than for your neighbor.
I think it has, but not the way you put it. Rather: we've shared reality for thousands of years, and that's why it worked. We've had the occasional lunatic who didn't share our reality, but they ran into a mammoth or tried to pet a sable tooth tiger. For the rest of us, it was easier. When you said "three mammoths behind the forest", I had a pretty good idea about what you were talking about.
> I just want to seriously ask, on a planet with 7 billion people scattered around the world how can you possibly expect everyone to share the same reality?
We don't need literally everyone anywhere on earth to share the same reality. We need a shared reality mostly with those we come in contact with, for practical reasons I'd say in a nation, but probably also in political blocs (though the details can very well get more fuzzy the further away somebody is). Can't have Europe think the Soviets are great while the US thinks they're terrible, that won't work in an alliance.
And we don't need to have everyone share it either, a super majority is enough. It's not an issue if you have 1% of people believing that reptilians are running the government and looking for politicians blinking sideways on TV. It starts to become a problem when you get larger groups that don't share reality. A small group of 1% will get carried away by the flow. That's much different with a group of 10, 20 or 30 percent.
> How is the reality of people from two completely different places in the world ever going to be the same?
It's not, but then again, even here on the internet, you're mostly speaking to people from your part of the world (geographically, but even more so culturally). It really doesn't matter whether you share reality with somebody you have no points of contact with. And, I think, it's much easier to even accept that somebody perceives reality differently when they're very clearly not like you. There might be a bit of a condescending tone of "oh, of course, they fell for the propaganda their government put out... well, that couldn't happen to me", but it's much more acceptable for a Chinese person to have a drastically different world view than for your neighbor.