Reality isn't real.

The world is perception from a personal standpoint.  This is often confused with the senses, which are then confused with reality, or vice versa.   Reality being subjective, and thus not real,  because the world we all perceive is a "show".    There's an underlying world that is projected to the senses, a surface display of the physical universe itself.   The surface presented is only an indirect distillation though, a combined simplistic image of the underlying infinitely complex machinations contained within.   We don't have direct contact to it, only an indirect and incomplete contact.   Things that are too large to directly consider in totality.  The senses are as incapable of it as the brain and consciousness comprising those senses are incapable of it.  

In a rather recursive way, our sense of existence is only a link to this surface projection, and through it, to the underlying reality.    So everything's a filtered illusion, not a direct view. 

Such as with the moonlight.  In that case, we do not look upon the sun but at a converted and limited relfection of part of the sun; the radiation that travels through space and gets to us.    Even then, the original light is only the brightest light in the visual spectrum; sight, a single limited sense.    Intensity and content must be removed for the eye to see, or even more abstracted representations must be used indirectly.  Yet even a photograph of the sun itself,  where one can see the surface, has more filtered out than it includes.  Any photograph is nothing but what the eyes and brain can perceive, captured at a sub-second slice of time.  Video is nothing a number of those slices projected  often enough to create yet another illusion.     No matter the visual method, everything but wavelengths of about 390 to 750 nanometers is lost.  There's nothing to hear, feel, taste, smell or otherwise sense either.   All there is, at most, is up to 390 Terahertz of bandwidth detected by the eye and perceived by the brain.

Oh, but you say we feel it as well, the heat.   Yes, that's true, but it is still limited, filtered and incomplete, and that is the point.

Our inner sense of existance is nothing but a perception of a direct link between sensory projection and the underlying mechanisms being projected.   But there is no direct link there.   The process of understanding this all though, ah.    It gives one the ability to in some ways manipulate components of the reality being percieved.   It gives us a way to get an idea of what it is we don't know.   And what we don't know is everything else that's there beyond the shell we can indirectly interact with.   We can in some way manipulate the reality we perceive and ignore that which we can't.

So what we're left with a reality that isn't real; but our perceptions of that reality are indeed very real.   Just not all there is.

That other thing about Barack Hussein Obama II

SWe've previously gone over that he wasn't elected due to being black, but due to being more charismatic than his opponent.    While it's certainly true that being black contributes to one's charisma stats, so does being young, being new, being unknown, being scholarly, being well-groomed and being well-supported by one's backers and the media.

Yet there's another problem here, one that nobody much bothers with, since it's so unimportant in so many ways.  And so contentious in so many others.   Because it involves precise imprecise language mixed with meaningless meaning.    The issue about claiming he was elected because?

He's not black.   

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Ever since the olden days when dinosaurs walked the Earth, Apple products have been interesting, high-quality, proprietary.... and expensive. Elitist even.  Now with them being the leading consumer-space hardware/software tech company or what have you (mostly due to phones and laptops and MP3 players and music collection software and video players and editors, it appears) and bigger than even Microsoft, they are the new top dog, the new evil corporation and.....   so what?

BHO wasn't elected because he is black.

From time to time, people write or say that the current president and head of the Executive Branch of the USA was elected because he is black.    This is of course not true at all, although it's certainly understandable how some people might think of it as such.  It's notable, it's historic, it's cool.  But it's not true.    Why then was he elected?