Disorientation from losing a shared reality is diagnosed before it can be overcome

Evidence

Disorientation is a personal as well as collective condition. When those in power claim to own reality and impose their reality on public life, what happens to ours? What becomes of us as inhabitants of a common world that no longer seems a world in common? We experience anxiety, rage, and a sense of helpless confusion. Diagnosing disorientation is the first step in overcoming it. — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 375

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: Only if the ‘own reality’ framing carries unusual weight, this is a rigorous turn on shared-world epistemology — moderate depth.
• XREF: connects to: Acknowledging disorientation is the first step toward overcoming it.; Shared reality is woven from irreducibly perspectival individual experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 988; Extreme near-total silence can trigger panic, disorientation, and physical illness — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels: The Quest for Absolute…, 474

Broader Connections

• Acknowledging disorientation is the first step toward overcoming it. #complicates (0.85)
• Shared reality is woven from irreducibly perspectival individual experience #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 988
• Extreme near-total silence can trigger panic, disorientation, and physical illness #exemplifies (0.75) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 474