Gravity's Rainbow
Phineas and Ferb
Pikes Peak outside my window
No one lives in reality, our brain creates distortions without our knowledge and without our consent
Confirmation bias is one of the strongest forces for shaping the way we think and creates some pretty huge distortions between what our brain thinks is reality and actual reality
Our brain hides our biases from ourself. No reason to cook the books to make you feel good about yourself and then reveal you are cooking the books.
We have a tendency to see people in our group as better than they are and people in groups we dislike as worse than they are. This causes all kinds of societal problems.
Strongbad Emails from Homestar runner