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The nature of reality is an ongoing enigma, a subject that is frequently explored on this board. It's a concept that I never tire of contemplating. Is reality an illusion? Is illusion a reality because it can be mentally perceived? When it comes to reality, does it matter whether something is tangible or intangible? Is deception the same as an illusion, and is one person's reality another one's lie? The 2 pictures below were taken a couple of days ago. The first picture was taken about 20 minutes before the second one, proving how external factors can embellish and disguise. Nobody embodies the mystique of reality any more than humans who create the paradox of facades that are ironically real. I am Cynique and Cynique is me. "Me" is, of course, is an abstraction and an abstraction is real if it materializes into what it represents. Or is it? To be or to be. Do we have a choice? Cynique by any other name would be just as contrary. Alter egos have become options for those who believe it is true that both sides of a coin are real. Are truth and reality the same. Or is this false because it involves subjective judgment.???

Good question. There has never been a vigorous campaign to elect a woman to the head of this organization. Women, themselves, don't seem inspired to take the helm. Maybe because the NAACP has become increasingly impotent and its leadship position a thankless task. But Myrlie Evers most certainly would have been a good choice to be the first woman to be its head. From its inception back in the early 1900s, the NAACP has a history of relegating its female members to lesser positions. Educator and prominent black feminist, Ida B. Wells, complained that she was not allowed to be in the NAACP's inner circle when it was first founded and that the only job assigned to her was that of "acting" secretary expected to do nothing more than write the minutes of the meetings. Although her name is on the NAACP charter, Wells was not granted a full fledged membership.

I'll give you an example. The industrialization of China. Too many cars in the city. The solution was to encourage bike riding. The affluent not keen in riding a bike. It reminds them of poverty or China before development. So they marketing high end expensive bicycles. No you happen to be more self motivated than others. However if you want to change behavior sometimes it helps to know what drives it. It perhaps not but it us the way I think.