DO YOU BELIEVE IN THE BOARD GAME “MONOPOLY”?
Can you temporarily suspend disbelief and say yes in order to continue?
Okay so now you have the right to buy Boardwalk and you have the money to buy it, right? Right.
A few more adventures ensue and you make decisions based on the description of the game. Oops, now you go to jail.
Do you believe you should have had to go to jail? There are awful people there! It stinks! It’s reprehensible. You’re getting flustered! Freaking out! What to do? What to do?
Perhaps the wisest thing would be to re-examine the seductive suggestion put to you in the first place: “Can you temporarily suspend disbelief and say yes in order to continue?”
That ‘temporary’ went waaaay too long. You forgot that you bought in to something you never believed in the first place.
On a seemingly infinitely larger scale the dream of Monopoly (coulda been chess!) like the dream of evolution – or physicality itself – is nothing but a dream.