Although reality is only a social construct, a disoriented self still try to build his or her reality, hoping to get rid of the sense of disorientation. Unfortunately and paradoxically, the simulated world of image-enhanced hyperreality distances us from reality, instead of heightening our experience of reality. In a postmodern world, not just one reality is being constructed and offered to us. It is a cable or carnivalesque culture. Even religious traditions, which used to be authoritatively imposed, now have to be marketed.
Religious traditions become consumer commodities.
In both modern and premodern times, religion involved beliefs about what is real. Today religion is not seen as a set of beliefs about what is real and what is not. Rather, religion is seen as a preference, a choice. We believe in what we like . Intellect gives over to will and spiritual experience.