The radical endpoint of social constructionism: the argument that all of human reality—not just social facts like money, but our experience of time, space, the self, and even seemingly brute physical facts—is mediated through and shaped by the conceptual and linguistic systems we collectively build. It's the realization that we are born into a world that is already thickly pre-constructed, and we spend our lives navigating, reinforcing, and sometimes remaking those constructions.
Example: "Looking at a sunset, I see 'beauty' and 'the end of the day'—both constructed concepts. A physicist sees 'Rayleigh scattering' and 'planetary rotation'—other constructed concepts from a different framework. The Theory of Constructed Everything suggests there is no access to the sunset-in-itself; we only ever experience it through the various reality-tunnels our cultures and sciences have built for us. We live in a house of ideas, and mistake it for the sky."
by Abzu Land January 31, 2026
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