DAILY WRITING/WORLD VIEW

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF

"The temporary acceptance as believable, events or characters that would ordinarily be seen as incredible. This is usually to allow an audience to appreciate works of literature or drama that are exploring unusual ideas." The term was originally coined by Samuel Taylor Coleridge in 1817 with the publication of his Biographia Literaria. We know very well that we are watching an actor or looking at marks on paper, but we willfully accept them as real in order to fully experience what the creator is attempting to convey.

The thesis here is that we all create realities in daily life that are essentially states of suspended disbelief by our choices of religion, political persuasion, career, country, love, belief or not in the magic bullet theory, or choice of architecture. What makes us unhappy is when others fail to share in our beliefs. The trick, over time of course, is to structure a story line that works for us and those around us in real life in the most positive way possible.

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