"Sanity is a madness put to good uses; waking life is a dream controlled." (Santayana)
I find myself thinking that a combination of both fear and laziness drives us. We obviously live in a world controlled by fear because we are always worried about the new disease or whatever consequences may come of any of our actions. Our fear drives us to be lazy many times and it drives us to lack initiative. However, the natural tendency to be lazy is also very influential in our lives as it is always more fun to watch to football game then it is to get your work finished. I think it's an unfortunate combination of both that keeps humans where they are.
I'm not sure what to exactly make of this quote aside from the fact that the world we see is controlled by our senses. Those senses are like our dreams because they aren't objects at all but the perception of those objects. This dream reality that we control is the life that's around us.
