Essay On Seeing Is Real

Society has been continuously instructed that in order to believe something you must have seen it for yourself and provide fact that whatever you may have seen is real. Whether it be a statistic, video, or a professional's statement concrete material is needed to prove its existence, We have grown up thinking seeing is believing, becoming obsessed and driven with the idea that facts are crucially essential to support our every thought and decision, because otherwise it becomes irrelevant. The New York Sun, Published an article entitled "Santa Claus Lives," where the editor responds to a little girl, Virginia, who asks whether or no Santa Claus is real. Beyond his answer he reveals a truth about how people, have discarded the idea of believing is seeing, and rapidly replaced it with facts. Humans have forgotten how to imagine, and have barricaded their minds from simply wondering, consequently submersing themselves into an inevitable cycle of suppression. Restricting ourselves from a far greater world, the unseen world, that exists in myths and stories like that of Santa Claus. We have only come to understand and know what lays before out feeble human eyes. Seeing is believing, this idea has continuously been perpetrated within society and has become human's primary ideology. This concept gave rise specifically during The Industrial Revolution, 1897 was when this article was published which was in great affect by this specific era. Hence this article

It allows humans to break free from the cycle of suppression created in society, forcing us into indulging the world with the eyes rather than through our imagination, and beliefs. When those are set in place we can break free from only fact, and begin to explore the multiple dimensions that that inhibit this "unseen"