Dispatches from the Desert of the Unreal: The End of Dialogue

There is a form of the divorce from reality experienced by rather large groups of people that is currently manifesting as inability to engage in dialogue. As per usual, I take an example from everyday life and filter out deeper implications. This time around, it didn’t require much effort and the results we are left with is astonishing. The link between thing-concept-word appears to be terminally severed for some, otherwise normal, people. The end result of this peculiar severance of ontological sinews of reality is identifying of words with things – an extreme nominalism which prevents any meaningful conversation.