The Danger of IF

Hyperreality is everywhere; the clothes we wear, the food we eat, and the air we breathe. "Hyperreality no longer exists just in our heads; it is being force-fed to us nearly every time we leave our homes." Fantasy and reality has become so meshed that it is exceedingly difficult to distinguish between them. The signifiers gave the signified, but the signifiers were never real to begin with. Now the signifiers are taken away and we are left with the signified - but it isn't reality. It is this that has society "cocooned in hyperreality." We are stuck with false signifieds about what normal is. With a false sense of reality we live in expectation of fantasy, only to be disappointed. That is the danger of hyperreality.

http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-hyperreality.htm

EXPANSION

IFs are a dangerous subject. It is with IFs that I dig myself into a hole of hyperreality. I start fantasizing about possible situations, wondering how things would be IF this were that or IF that were this. The problem is that the most significant part, the word "IF", gets forgotten and the possibility becomes my reality. I can no longer see the difference between the fantasy or the reality.

~Scribbles