Consensual fictionalization of reality disturbs more than private solipsism consoles us

Evidence

The manager’s capacity to smoothly migrate from one reality to another reminded me of nothing so much as Ursula Le Guin’s The Lathe of Heaven. It is a novel about George Orr, a man whose dreams literally come true. … What differentiates Kant, Nietzsche and Freud from the tiresome cliché that ‘life is but a dream’ is the sense that the confabulations we live are consensual. The idea that the world we experience is a solipsistic delusion projected from the interior of our mind consoles rather than disturbs us, since it conforms with our infantile fantasies of omnipotence; but the thought that our so-called interiority owe its existence to a fictionalized consensus will always carry an uncanny charge. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 109

Categorization

• SHARE: For a reader into Le Guin or dream narrative: the argument that mutually-witnessed reality-warping is inherently more uncanny than solipsistic dreaming.
• XREF: connects to: Consensual rather than solipsistic delusion carries the uncanny charge in our constructed realities. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 109; Fiction’s absorption of memoir and self-branding erases fictionality — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 161

Related

• Consensual rather than solipsistic delusion carries the uncanny charge in our constructed realities. (similarity 0.87)

Broader Connections

• Fiction’s absorption of memoir and self-branding erases fictionality #expands (0.78) — Anna Kornbluh, Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late…, 161