the way social conservatives need you to believe in Reality should be more clearly understood as them trying to get you to accept a contract
they need you to tell them that you see things fundamentally the same as them and that you arent one of those glasses wearers that's going to talk about "perspectives" and complicate things
they need things to be this simple because moral stimuli need to produce clear answers to them. as defenders of societies reproduction, they know that civilization cannot function without this regime
one really obvious behavior that occurs whenever you reframe anything a dipshit says is the expression of frustration or objections about something being unfair in the conversation because it's social conservative decorum to never do this unless something is very morally important because you're fundamentally shattering their Reality and they cannot function without it
they need Reality not just as the fantasy that they use to train their behaviors/reactions to things, but as a way to set in stone the social practice of believing authorities, because the only way to gain insight onto Reality is by confirming it with another person, but often not just another person, a person with the right credentials or social position
they tell you that you can Know things for certain as a way to teach you to accept certain logics where they feel their framework to be advantaged. accepting there is a Truth to things really, is to accept that there is a correct perspective to view things from and very very very frequently that perspective and the state/social authority occupy the same place in peoples heads and with it comes all other sorts of assumptions that they'll throw into the conversation
