{"id":49901,"date":"2016-04-24T16:32:53","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49901"},"modified":"2016-04-24T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T16:36:01","slug":"surrealism-and-surreal-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=49901","title":{"rendered":"Surrealism and surreal reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; perception and plutonium ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>The sureralist master and master surrealist <strong>Salvador Dali<\/strong> here invokes optical illusion to illuminate the fickle nature of our perceptions of (non-surreal) reality:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The secret behind Salvador Dali&#39;s illusion is helping to decode our brains <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/P27NqvHVNR\">https:\/\/t.co\/P27NqvHVNR<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/khgjIKbrLP\">pic.twitter.com\/khgjIKbrLP<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MailOnline\/status\/723531569680527364\">April 22, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As for reality itself, it has its own form of surreality &#8212; in this case, the dismal facts of plutonium stockpiles and their disposal, and their implications for politics (not to mention its conceivable \/ inconceivable continuation by other means).<\/p>\n<p>All of which is unpleasant to conteplate, seldom discussed, and thus itself a form of perceptual illusion:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I&#39;m quoted here.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0PdvsKGBZI\">https:\/\/t.co\/0PdvsKGBZI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CherylRofer\/status\/724254291741954049\">April 24, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>FWIW, I see a visual connection between these two images, although that may ba a personal quirk not shared by others. Again, a quirk of perception?<\/p>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p><strong>Readings: <\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<li><strong>RFE \/ RL<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rferl.org\/content\/putin-swipes-us-plutonium-disposal\/27692331.html\">As Putin Swipes At U.S. Over Plutonium Disposal, Nuclear Cooperation Takes A Hit<\/a>\n<li><strong>Cheryl Rofer at Nuclear Diner<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/nucleardiner.wordpress.com\/2016\/04\/21\/plutonium-disposal-difficulties\/\">Plutonium Disposal Difficulties<\/a><\/li>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; perception and plutonium ] . The sureralist master and master surrealist Salvador Dali here invokes optical illusion to illuminate the fickle nature of our perceptions of (non-surreal) reality: The secret behind Salvador Dali&#39;s illusion is helping to decode our brains https:\/\/t.co\/P27NqvHVNR pic.twitter.com\/khgjIKbrLP &mdash; Daily Mail Online (@MailOnline) April 22, 2016 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,662,526,1151,90,684,108,32,1,61,364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-blog-friends","category-charles-cameron","category-doubletweets","category-nuclear","category-nuclear-diner","category-rofer","category-science","category-uncategorized","category-visualization","category-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49901"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49904,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49901\/revisions\/49904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}