CHUCK LORRE PRODUCTIONS, #637
The loss of faith is a terrible thing. To believe in something
with absolute certainty, and then cease to believe, is an almost
unbearable experience. For my entire life I believed in the common
sense of America. Sure the pendulum might swing to the right, but
then it would always swing back to the left - ultimately finding
its way to the moderate, American, middle. That naive faith is
gone. I see now the inherent madness in not just Americans, but in
all human beings. A madness based on our willingness to believe in
whatever fiction best comforts us.* Or enrages us. I can only
suppose we're wired this way because life, the world, reality, is
simply too much. In the face of overwhelming uncertainty, we
desperately seek some ground to stand on, even if that ground does
not actually exist. We live, love, fight and die defending
sandcastles. No, not even. The idea of sandcastles. The dream of
sandcastles. All while an actual wave approaches.
*thanks to Yuval Noah Harari for this insight
1st Aired: 12 December 2019