The sovereign state is the strongest constructor of reality; the world is a multiverse of realities
In the post-truth era, the islands of fact are dissolving. What if the problem is not a dispute about "truth" but a fragmentation of "reality" itself? What if different nations do not merely hold different views of one world, but fundamentally inhabit parallel worlds of their own construction? The essence of international conflict may be the collision of rival versions of reality.
The Multiverse of Realities
Key Concepts
The State as Consensus Border
A national border is not only a jurisdictional line but the effective boundary of a grand observational consensus.
Cross it, and you enter another force field of historical narrative, mode of observation, and version of reality.
The Four Pillars
The coordinated engineering of historical narrative, ideology and education, language and media, law and institutions.
Together they create a stable, self-consensus world for hundreds of millions, enabling large-scale cooperation.
Ontological Threat
The mere existence of another state''s reality declares that ours is not the only necessary choice.
This explains why ideological conflicts run crueler and more uncompromising than conflicts of interest.
Reality Translation
Diplomacy is the art of finding minimal overlapping consensus between incommensurable realities.
A signed treaty is a temporary zone of overlap — the only hope for order in a multiverse.
Available Margin
Rather than seeking the optimum, deliberately preserve multiple possible paths for the future.
It is the fundamental safeguard against uncertainty — and the highest wisdom of realist ontology in politics.
Map of the Book
Part One: From the "Foundation of Possibility" to International Politics
Part Two: The Formation of the State as a "Consensus Boundary"
Part Three: The Collision of Multiverses — The Interaction Dynamics of Different Versions of Reality
Part Four: Contemporary Challenges — The Friction of Reality in the Age of Globalization
Part Five: Toward Coexistence — Constructing the Order of a "World Multiverse"
After reading, you will understand
- Post-truth signals a fragmentation of reality, not a lapse in cognition
- Borders are the effective boundaries of observational consensus
- Globalization intensifies reality friction, not cultural convergence
- Diplomacy''s essence is cross-universe reality translation
- The greatest political art is letting countless stories coexist