Two-Layered Human Reality

What is reality? That question might sound both deep and nonsensical. Being constantly immersed in what we take reality to be, for most people the answer seems tautological: what's out there, stop daydreaming and face "reality", that is, find a position in society. But how real is this reality?

First of all, we have the universe. If we think that human beings should disappear tomorrow (as sometimes it seems we are trying to), few but postmodern philosophers would disagree that the sun would still be there, earth, moon and so on and so forth; nature would stand a chance and second nature, man-made space, would be a senseless jumble of concrete and steel and plastic and printed circuit.

Then we have the world. The world is not physical, it is made of interactions between humans, and most of all, the world is made of language. We live in a web of interactions which is quite independent from our choice, this web has actually been established historically by powerful people, who have also always, unsurprisingly, benefited from it. Nowadays this web is almost ubiquitous: few individuals escape the same capitalist social structure. Then we have language, which as I have posited, is fed back into the system; unfortunately, while real knowledge follows a "spontaneous" feed-back loop, meaning that it must be sought after by individuals, there is a "forced" loop called indoctrination: a continuous reinforcement of false notions that underprop the aforementioned web of interactions. 

Since the spreading of the web came by means of colonization of virtually the entire dry land surface by Europeans, one institution is obviously a great suspect for that process of indoctrination: the churches. Monotheist Western faith sports all the tenets necessary for a hierarchical unjust society: the inevitability and unquestionability of "God's will", labor as a punishment for seeking knowledge, rebelliousness as a characteristic of the fearful devil, fear of life instead of joy of living.

Of course, after the system was well established, and the supernatural admonitions just did not scare as much anymore, or reach the other hemisphere as effectively, a communications system began to be set in motion, so that the majority of the people are exposed to one version of the facts, making independent interpretation seem extravagant, and justifiably repressed whenever necessary, and consummerist needs are spread. In that sense, conformity replaces faith, and self-satisfaction, or some ideal of comfort, seems to replace fear. Fear is essential to any authoritarian system, but now it is not fear of the otherworldly, but simple fear of dispossession and starvation. So effective is indoctrination that most people participate willingly, if not enthusiatically, in an oppression system, and feel the need to defend it from questioning, even if one of the victims and not of the perpetrators.

Is there any reality in that "reality" we are told to accept, after all?