It might stem from the violation of those norms by a particular person, as when someone tells a racist joke and no one knows how to respond, or from the collision of two incompatible sets of norms, as when David Brent brings the quest for reality show celebrity to the workplace.
This is the preliminary stage through which everyone must pass, but a philosopher, and a divine philosopher (hakim muta'allih) at that, must go beyond this stage in pursuit of the quest for reality.
It was one step in "the quest for invisible reality".
"In our time the quest for world order will require relating the perceptions of societies whose realities have largely been self-contained," Kissinger argues.
And with any tale about the quest for gold — reality-based or scripted — there's the irresistible appeal of man versus nature and man versus man.
The nostalgia for some peaceful, fog-shrouded past that the Picturesque movement labored for might seem at odds with the unflinching quest for the extrasensory reality that Picasso strived to convey.
The quest for a substitute reality is also a variety of fragile artifice, and Saul Bellow says as much in a letter, from 1948, that's one of the most brilliant, revealing, and dynamic passages of Zachary Leader's majestic biography of the novelist.
In a Nietzschean mode, he suggests that henceforth truth and reality are illusions, that illusions reign, and that therefore people should respect illusion and appearance and give up the illusory quest for truth and reality.
With such individual-based simulations there is always the temptation to include ever more complexity, however any model is necessarily a caricature of reality and so the quest for ever greater realism can never be fulfilled.
Balancing a quest for innovation with the realities of producing theater today is undeniably tough.
The search for the killer, the cyber-stalking-and-shaming, the hunt for copper wires and left-behind microwaves, the hunger for fame and the quest for a dreamlike entangling of reality and desire unite the stories, albeit in a way that, from page one, the reader will realise is unlikely to end wisely or well.
