Some people love paradoxes and seek opportunities to claim that they are the whole of reality. For instance, it turns out that color perception is partially socially constructed. One writer leaps from that to the claim that color perceptions are arbitrary mental constructs which have nothing to do with reality.

Plenty of aspects of human perception, thought, and behavior are partially socially constructed, but that doesn't mean they are arbitrary or that they are not constrained by reality.

US citizens: if your congresscritter is a Republican phone per and call on per to sign a discharge petition for a bill to raise the debt ceiling and not do anything else. The Capitol Switchboard numbers are +1-202-224-3121, +1-888-818-6641 and +1-888-355-3588.

If you phone, please spread the word!

US citizens: call on state legislators to please support overdose prevention centers.

US citizens: oppose flooding schools with guns and uniformed thugs.

The special danger of thugs in schools is that they can direct students into the school-to-prison pipeline. They do this for minor matters of indiscipline that in the past would not have involved the state at all.

US citizens: tell Congress: No cuts to Social Security or raises on retirement age.