Individuals exhibit avalerism when they unresistingly incorporate an external presented circus reality into their daily lives without invoking the pragmatic mundane accumulations of their experience. Thus for example, having seen, experienced and learned about the chaotic and deadly consequences of floods, earthquakes, disease and war, they never-the-less accept and promote the absurd notion of a "creative and loving god". Or having been presented in the media with selective and politically correct viewpoints, the avaleristic recipient accepts without question that certain sectors of society are to blame for certain perceived ills, or even that humans are the prime cause of the climatic changes taking place on the planet.

Being immersed in the simplifications of another reality perspective can have the effect of suppressing the relevance and importance of the unique established reality of the individual being saturated. If the self-image of an individual is not particularly entrenched, that individual's own personal reality is easily dissolved by the immersion into a vigorously promoted alternative reality. The promoted perspective swamps, overwhelms and anaesthetizes the individuals established interests and priorities. The individual can become "brainwashed". The avaleristic individual does not assess and evaluate the pragmatic realities of the promoted perspectives, but allows critical pragmatic values, mature refection and objective analysis to be abandoned or suppressed and thus not invoked. Avalerism thus results from an undue susceptibility to giving credence to one or more alternative belief universes. It is a form of synoptic intellectual gullibility.

The use of imagination in all forms of art is not avalerism but is the faculty upon which the art form depends. Everything that is available in the immediate existence is temporarily suspended and all the values, ideals, conditions, resources and circumstances of the presented art-form are incorporated into an imaginative construct. The individual can become entirely absorbed into the universe of a play, book, piece of music or visual art whilst it has their attention, but in most circumstances a return to "normality" is relatively swift. It is in fact the phenomena upon which the escapism of art, theatre and entertainment depend. Individuals might be influenced to favour a perspective portrayed by a series of creative works...like cubism modernism or romanticism for example... but they could not normally be accused of avalerism because their critical faculties would probably not have all been turned off. Never-the-less, many self-promoted critic-experts in all the fields of arts and science, focus themselves on the narrow perspective of their expertise, and adopt that as the basis against which all else is compared. They have swallowed hook, line and sinker, their Shakespeareanism, relativism, expressionism or whatever, and have become incapable of objectively evaluating alternative realties. Certainly there have always been avalerist scientists who have adopted a particular theory or set of hypotheses as if no other option was possible or conceivable.

The intellectually receptive swallowing of a presented simplification of reality is a widespread phenomenon and it is encouraged and manipulated by diverse vested interest groups. Without an already established self-world that an individual can return to and be comfortable with, being absorbed by an introduced parallel world is a distinct possibility. Each world view promotes its own concepts and values as being existentially significant and very often actively recruits adherents...be it politics, science, religion or sport. A proselytizing universe presents simplifications which from lack of scrutiny often appear plausible. The avalerist initiate unresistingly swallows the presented perspective, becomes a "convert" and is hence available for manipulation. Aspiring scientists become disciples of the model in fashion. Citizens acquire the attitudes towards other social groups and countries because of the propaganda bias of media control. Young religious converts aspire towards the goals and rewards of martyrdom. Young men are recruited as soldiers for the promised fame, fortune power and glory.

Avalerism only occurs if there is a complete absence of simple pragmatic thinking.