Science fiction, Science Fact, and real life experiences?

There is what might be true, there is what probably true, and then there is what now is true.

And as I grew up all these things were always in flux, Because many things that might have been true either became true or were on the way to becoming true, and what I experienced in the 1950s and 1960s isn't what people perceive to be real now. So, then what is real? What is real depend upon your childhood conditioning, your real life experiences and any new experiences you have ever single day of your life.

So, because of that what is real for someone who lives in a tribe somewhere without electricity and whose people might have never seen electricity or a plane (there are very few of these today but there were millions like this when I grew up). So, there are less versions of reality now than there were in the 1950s.

I can't help but feel we are all lessened as a human race from that fact somehow. There are, however, more what I would call "top layers" of reality that one might get from facts on the Internet. However, facts are not experience they are just facts. Like if you see someone drive a car or motorcycle on the Internet there really isn't any connection to that much to driving a car and motorcycle yourself if you have never been on a motorcycle or been in a car or ever seen many cars before is there?

The same is true of planes, boats, ships, and all sorts of other vehicles and buildings and cities and cultures around the world. What you think all these things are and what they actually are might have no resemblance at all in real life. So, though facts are nice, the real experience of something is much more memorable than just facts.

So, I advocate experiencing more of life if you can because then you are not just saying, "I saw this information on the Internet". Instead you can say, I have been there, I have met them, I have seen this in person and this always changes everything because it isn't just something on a screen you see but something you have actually experienced in real life.

And if you go to other cultures one must always be prepared for culture shock of people not behaving at all as you expect them to.

For example, the hardest thing to get used to in India and Nepal when I went there for 4 months in 1985 and 1986 was hundreds of people staring at us all the time because that is expected of people there, whereas here people avert their eyes because that is considered polite here. And each culture has different things like this that might blow your mind if you are from another culture.

For example, you might be frightened of people in the U.S. if you are from South Korea or Japan because those are much safer and more honorable cultures than the U.S. In the U.S. people are very direct and straightforwards usually and politeness isn't the same and if you go into the wrong area and say the wrong things or do the wrong things people might beat you up, rob you or kill you. So, you have to know ahead of time what areas are safe for you to be in and what areas aren't.

However, this is also true of almost every nation on earth in some areas.