The monomystery

## Chapter one: we are all glips

We are all Flawed Geniuses Locked In Plato's Cave (Glips), an illusion reinforced by self (including our genome and epigenetic factors) as well as our social and environmental interactions. Extracting ourselves, to the extent we can, is tough. And it's also fun: a real Hero's Journey. It is a lifelong adventure. The ultimate Escape Room challenge.

Why is it tough and fun?

As a Glip we generally do not know we are one. This may be:

* Ignorance including of self and our YOUnique gifts
* Circumstance, bad luck
* Being stuck in a Glip Club (a Path Dependent, Confirmation Bias Clade)
* Being within the realm of influence of a Glip Matrix. And note, the original meaning of matrix was "womb."

And we get something from our present Glippiness and perpetuate it. This may be:

* It feels comfortable and normal
* Money, Power, Influence
* Love, A buzz like Dopamine (and a habit)
* Belonging to a tribe or group where we have some social standing within the pecking-order
* Reassurance that our GLIP is OK (and mental health)

And other Glips get something from our predicament and perpetuate it -- for mostly the same reasons. The most pernicious of these can be termed Glip Matrix Admins. We can all name a few of these can't we? And indeed these can be both malevolent and benign. A mother must provide an awesome glip matrix to ensure the safety of her child.

References

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/freud-quote-depression-assholes/

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/B.\_F.\_Skinner

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/behaviorism.html

https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Situationist\_International

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s\_law

http://www.sjgames.com/illuminati/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Truman\_Show

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Matrix

## Chapter two: the nature of glips with examples

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/futuristkeynotespeaker\_ai-work-productivity-activity-7038802313548898305-8wsB?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=member\_desktop

Glips have yucks and yums, often influenced by being stuck in their glip club. And we chemotax our way.

Glips can strongly disagree, they can yuck your yums.

## Chapter four: breaking the illusion

Bucky has a great quote here:

> “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.”― Buckminster Fuller
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## Chapter five: once a Glip, always a Glip

And what do we become when we find a way out? An Evolved Glip. It may look like sunshine and lakes and wildlife with a backward glance at the hole in the ground we emerged from, but nothing has really changed. We're still in a cave chained to a wall looking at shadows. And who's to say our new cave is nicer? This is because sadly/happily we can never escape out Glip nature. Yes, that's right. With being a Glip it's Turtles All The Way Down.

I even see particles and sub-atomic particles etc. in this realm. They might sound pretty secure and smug about it, but I guarantee you they are just as much a glip as you are! Indeed some religious texts, gnosticism comes to mind, treat God as a glip.

## Chapter six: the great Glip shake

So far being a Glip seems heavy. It is about to get heavier since the challenges we face in our world are accelerating. Some call it a Polycrisis, while for the purposes of this article it can be described as the Great Glip Shake (GGS). Due to the GGS, Being a Glip is going to get harder for everyone no matter where we are on our Glip Journey and which particular Glip Clubs we happen to be members of. This may manifest as our Glip Club dissolving or us being forced to become an Evolved Glip even if we don't want to. We may suffer Ego Defence around these challenges, for example Denial: acting as if our Glip Club is just fine despite mounting evidence to the contrary.