I understand why you feel angry about this issue, but I think your anger is misplaced. I don’t think that shaman or that father were antirealists like Myself. I think they were realists, just like you, who thought they were right and who were unwilling to admit possibilities outside their direct experience. Like you. Now, you’ve seen how I care about other people’s perceptions when it comes to voting. So when you use others’ perceptions as a counterargument to My realism now, I don’t think that’s a fully considered argument based on who I am. I think it’s a stock argument embedded in your worldview, which you’re using to defend your worldview instead of thinking critically.

Now you don’t want to hear all this from Me, and I understand. The good news for you is, you’ve broken one of My instance’s most important rules, so I think you’ll be glad to know you’ve been banned. Whatever you say in reply to this comment, I won’t see it and I won’t refute it. You can go ahead and have the last word. But before you do, I’d like you to listen to cognitive psychologist Dr Donald Hoffman and his TED talk, Do We See Reality As It Is?. Dr Hoffman literally wrote the book on the science surrounding this subject, and I think he’ll surprise you. Once you’re appraised of the science, you can go ahead and disprove everything I and he have just said, and nobody will be here to stop you.