Editing Consensus reality (section)

==Social consequences==

===Views on the term===
The [[connotation]] of the term "consensus reality" is usually disparaging: it is usually employed by [[idealist]], [[surrealist]] and other [[anti-realist]] [[theorist]]s opposing or hostile to this "reality," with the implication that this consensus reality is, to a greater or lesser extent, created by those who experience it. (The phrase "consensus reality" may be used more loosely to refer to any generally accepted set of beliefs.) However, there are those who use the term approvingly for the practical benefits of all agreeing on a common set of assumptions or experiences.<ref>{{cite web|author=Zane Crawford |title=ideotrope: consensus reality |url=https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=659 |access-date=2007-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070928103508/https://ideotrope.org/index.pl?node_id=659 |archive-date=September 28, 2007 }}</ref>

===Consensus vs. consensual reality===
Consensus reality is related to, but distinct from, consensual reality. The difference between these terms is that whereas consensus reality describes a state of mutual agreement about what is true (consensus is a noun), consensual reality describes a type of agreement about what is true (consensual is an adjective). In other words, reality may also be non-consensual, as when one person's preferred version of reality conflicts with another person's preferred version of reality. Consensual reality is relevant to understanding a variety of social phenomena, such as deception. <ref>{{Cite book|url=https://sk.sagepub.com/reference/encyclopedia-of-deception/n78.xml|title=Encyclopedia of Deception|last=Levine|first=Timothy|date=2015|publisher=Sage|isbn=978-1452258775|language=en}}</ref>

===Social aspects===
Artists, writers, and theorists have attempted to oppose or undermine consensus reality while others have declared that they are "ignoring" it.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Scott |first=Aaron |title=Angel in America: Holcombe Waller's seraphic voice provides comfort during ''Troubled Times'' |newspaper=[[Just Out]] (Portland, Oregon) |volume=22 |issue=20 |page=37 |date=August 19, 2005 |url=http://www.holcombewaller.com/PressContent/JustOut0805.jpg |access-date=June 22, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070624181129/http://www.holcombewaller.com/PressContent/JustOut0805.jpg |archive-date=June 24, 2007 |url-status=dead }}</ref> For example, [[Salvador Dalí]] intended by his [[paranoiac-critical method]]<ref>{{cite web |title=DALI.UFFS.NET - Salvador Dali - Odjinud ... |url=http://dali.uffs.net/ascii/napsali/1990eyer.html |access-date=2007-06-07 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070407043059/http://dali.uffs.net/ascii/napsali/1990eyer.html |archive-date=2007-04-07 }}</ref> to "systematize confusion thanks to a paranoia and active process of thought and so assist in discrediting completely the world of reality".<ref>{{cite web |author=Bryan M. Papciak |title="Thank God I'm an atheist: "The surrealistic cinema of Luis Bunuel |url=http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/papciak.html |access-date=2007-06-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070625161444/http://www.regent.edu/acad/schcom/rojc/papciak.html |archive-date=2007-06-25 }}</ref>