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Late response, busy few days.
It's still not loading for me. Getting a white screen with a stuck load bar. Haven't tried it on a computer, just android. Maybe just post it here?
I agree that most people think they're working off reality. I generally think I'm working off reality, but then if you think about how little we actually percieve, we have a very dim view of reality. Extend this to the universe and beyond, and all our knowledge is a tiny rounding error that vanishes into zero.
All that being said, this isn't really anything you can live by. At least I can't. Most metaphysics are so much shit on a prick and untestable. My favorite is the simulation hypothesis, and one day we'll all live happily ever after in the computer. Not that it any way applies to my daily life.
Gravity still works, the sun will rise tomorrow, and vaccines generally reduce your risk of catching diseaes. So, I proceed with my best understanding of reality as I experience it. I try to force myself to face facts and change my mind given evidence.
So, back to the original topic. Here's a theroy: holding power and wealth in modern society may not be strongly correlated with an accurate view of objective reality but is strongly correlated in strongly believing you have an accurate view of objective reality. It also helps if you're a motherfucker that's willing to grind the bones of babies under your boots to get what you want.
As far as human society goes and the mutability of things like gender, money; mostly social constructs related to culture that has just grown by chance.
I do think we can point to some things that are pretty foundational to human culture, might even be impossible to remove: We're omnivorous primates that evolved into small family/tribal groups of 50-100 individuals. We sexually reproduce through pairing by individuals that usually have a heterosexual preference. Those offspring benefit from at least the semi-monogamy of their parents. They benefit from their family/tribe which includes individuals that don't conform to the most common gender/sexual habits.
That being said, we don't have to conform to that. Society can be whatever we make it, maybe. Maybe not, I don't have a crystal ball, there may be limitations on how you can style society barring genetic modification or brain surgery or something.