Perception filters

 Apparently, there are people in this world that can see the exact same things as me, at the exact time etc, etc and yet STILL see something completely different. 

You wonder if they are mentally challenged or perhaps just winding you up pretending to be stupid and while the internal monologue continues on its not so complimentary path the frontal cortex is busy doing its usual thing, ignoring the loud mouth that is ego, and sees that there might be amiss in the old perception filter.

Flipping through through the rolodex of usual suspects he notices, with a momentary lapse for a mental clap in the back, that most of the biases have been flagged and toned down. Political, religious biases have been dampened by a good layer of  "Don't give a fuk!" and replaced with the "Them over there" rhetoric which is good for a world war or two...

The usual sources don't even bother to manufacture evidence anymore. Nobody bothers to fact check the fact checkers. Those that were the harbingers of justice in the day where the illusion of justice was still believed. The Press used to be the Hounds of Truth, now they are nothing but a shadow on a back-alley wall.

We are defined by what we see and how others see us.
The difference between those two is often a defining factor in personal conflict.
If you are true to yourself and others are true to themselves
    there shouldn't be much of a difference between the two opinions.