1. Show it for what it is on it's fundamental level. Analogies, insights.... etc.
2. Show what it could be instead.
3. Show what is causing reality to be 1 instead of 2.

(Heaven lost, utopia lost, someplace lost, no longer, past, hate the christian implication of heaven... some place, some thing I was touched by... and that both kills me with it's abscence and made me strong...

From this muck, this soup, to furtively be hidden, surely.

Delusions of grandeur, pretensions, pain.)

How the sane can get along decently in an insane world....
See it for what it is. Understand when you're dealing with mindless conformity. When people are just using force. Know what battles to bother fighting.

Analogy using a more clearly insane world. Show a person absurdly trying to use reason in a society more clearly nuts. Put the Man of Reason into a world that is a little more obviously idiofied. Show the absurd. Absurdly trying to reason with someone who clearly has no use for reason.

Hell analogies. Various dystopias with features that are disconcertingly just like reality....
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Skinner-Positive reinforcement.... you reinforce the positive. What do you do with the negative? You don't reinforce it... But what do you do? Pretend to misunderstand it as something positive and reinforce that? I don't think that ignoring it always works...

Milgram-people, with little questioning, obey authority. Some more than others. Why? Those with close fathers were less likely to obey horrible orders. Does that make sense? More secure, less full of fear, stronger. Perhaps with better morals instilled in them. People conform. Sometimes it's absurd. I think the line experiment is more grand than the electric shock torture experiment. Show this absurdity....

The indifferent bystanders-the higher density of people, the more indifferent they become. They conform and/or they figure someone else will do something.

Cognitive disonnance-faith, etc. Of course. It's just a question of degree...

Rat Park-drug addiction is primarily a result of being unhappy with the world the way it is. No kidding. The evolutionary edge. The best killers... but they can no longer stand themselves and the world they've created. They walk the line. Those who created beer were able to evolve further towards being good killers, smarter, more full of anger...

False Memories-sure. People take the past and twist it. And I think not just the far past. In fact more often the very recent past. Like yesterday, an hour ago. And repressed memories? An idea that seems sort of unlikely but probably does occur to some extent.

Memory mechanics-neuronal engravings; proven by Kandel. Just like I hypothesized at least ten years ago. Supposedly alcohol kills brains cells. It can lighten the depth of the engravings giving the opportunity to choose which patterns to break free of.

Holy crap. Genetically engineering massive amounts of CREB means editic(sp) memory. Memory Pharmaceuticals. http://www.memorypharma.com/ Looks so... normal. The implications are potentially huge. A smart pill. Or the final horrific pulling back of the curtain. Or just some drug that slightly eleviates alzheimers in the short term before the body successfully adjusts and reestablishes base.

"I wonder if anyone has ever considered the benefits of memory loss?" asks Lauren Slater.

Along with things already mentioned there is the issue of not being able to focus on the here and now as well as our mind gets cluttered with past memories.. such as Slater muses. But I don't think that describes what would actually happen with massive CREB. The reason our ability to remember declines is in part because we aren't experiencing the present quite so fully (mind cluttered with so many past memories). CREB may play a role in improving focus... Slater seems to think it would make people remember the past from before they took the drug. I don't think so.

S. (A. L. Luria) had almost perfect recall but couldn't glean any meaning. Couldn't even comprehend facial expressions very well... Recite The Odyssey but couldn't tell you what it meant. (Who could?) Does this necessarily mean anything? Daniel Tammet has almost perfect recall thanks to synethesia... and he can understand, he can glean meaning... although he is still autistic...

A drug that can make you forget a short period of time actually exists. Not marketed yet. (not rophy, better and more horrible.)
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To what extent can irrelevant objects, settings, etc become associated with negative feelings/memories? With a really unhappy/hard life can you reach the point moving to someplace very alien would be helpful? Is there actually any meaningful truth to this idea at all?