Eliezer, you seem to be deeply offended by the fact that many people enjoy fantasy over reality, or don’t get a kick out of science. As you put it, they don’t have the scientific attitude that “nothing is mere”.
Yet why should you expect people to be different from the way they are?
You said it yourself: “Part of binding yourself to reality, on an emotional as well as intellectual level, is coming to terms with the fact that you do live here.”
That means accepting the reality that people like the things they like, not wishing for a fantasy world where people magically like the things you think they ought to.
Eliezer, you seem to be deeply offended by the fact that many people enjoy fantasy over reality, or don’t get a kick out of science. As you put it, they don’t have the scientific attitude that “nothing is mere”.
Yet why should you expect people to be different from the way they are?
You said it yourself: “Part of binding yourself to reality, on an emotional as well as intellectual level, is coming to terms with the fact that you do live here.”
That means accepting the reality that people like the things they like, not wishing for a fantasy world where people magically like the things you think they ought to.