George Saunders

He said, everything that you feel and enjoy and hate and crave, he said, it's all memory.

So a certain loose relation to appearances that says this is all a dream or it's all a form of memory that's happening.

So let's not get too attached to the way things appear.

And in our actions, let's factor that in.

So truth is just, well, let's say what's not truth.

What's not truth is your mind stream in a given situation.

You walk into a party and you feel judged.

You feel judged.

Are people actually judging you?

Maybe.

Now you go into the party and you can sort of see, you know, oh, they're... Honestly, man, nowadays, if you're me, they kind of are.

Okay.

But, I mean, that truth is not... I don't think it's anything lofty, but I think it's just saying in a given moment...

Can I sort through the various scale models that my mind is presenting to a quieter place?

And in the quieter place, you're processing more data.

So if you go to that party and your mind is quiet and you see somebody smiling at you, you go, oh, okay, noted.

Or see somebody giving the side eye, you just note it more honestly.

So I think truth is something you can, it's very simple.

It's not, and again, for me to go local in a book is,

And this is weird, and I can't really defend this.