Hi, this is Against Everyone with Connor Habib, a podcast featuring my conversations with countercultural figures and presenting complex, spiritual, philosophical, and political ideas in an engaging and accessible way.

Way back on the very first episode of this show, I quoted the writer G.K. Chesterton, who wrote,

The vision is always a fact. It is the reality that is often a fraud.

Now, Chesterton went on to speak about liberalism and liberals after that passage,

but I thought, what a twist and a twist that's needed in our thinking today, when radical visions aren't just

something that we should like to do, but are actually urgently required. The vision is condemned

by the realists.

Part of that condemnation is that visions are often, and visionaries are often regarded as dreams and dreamers,

and also that dreams are regarded as just sort of whimsical imaginations as nothing.

I've spent so much time on this show presenting a non-materialist theory and version and analysis of reality.

And I'm seeing that because, you know, I've tried to show that the dream, the vision, the imaginary are not nothing,

that actually they can be the foundation for the way we do politics, for the way we do economics,

and for the way we do culture.

But it's worth repeating here and maybe elaborating that what some regard as dreams, i.e. visions,

others regard as reality.

And the line between dream and reality is so often drawn by the exclusivity of the myths we live by.

What do I mean by that? Well, other cultures, these cultures that are not so-called Western culture, have different

ideas, different concepts, and even different perceptions of where reality ends and the dream

begins, if there is that line at all. Anthropologists and archaeologists are

often the closest we get in academia and expert-based Western culture to say there's more than one way to live,

there's more than one way to perceive reality, to perceive visions, and to perceive dreams.

And they're the best at saying in that, you know, aspect or that corner of the world,

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