MLGW 3

Trey Smith

Every memory is a partial truth. Every forgetting might be a kind of lie; retroactive innocence, maybe not so innocent. Forgetting is a necessity and at times a betrayal -- opting for convenience and omission, survival and abnegation. The future may be possible but the past is impossible, in part a leaden weight of missed opportunities and and disintegration, compounded by immutability.
~ from Chapter 13 of Made Love, Got War: Close Encounters with America's Warfare State by Norman Solomon ~

For me, this goes straight to the heart of the subjectivity of the human mind. Our minds are subjective because they filter the world in a way that tends to make each of us ascendent. Put another way, our mind becomes a god, the final arbiter of what we believe is good and just.

Since most of us don't like to admit that our lives are dominated by self-absorption, many project their internal god-mind into the external world and create deities that are said to be distinct and separate from each of us. But while we have these symbols of divinity that are worshiped by the masses, the god that we see in the public sphere, unsurprisingly, is the exact same one that originates in our own god-mind.