Our Inevitable Dilemma

From the momento of birth, each of us are carefully taught a multiplicity of untrue material. The fact that fantasies permeate every aspect of our society insures this. The delusion is proffered or echoed by every institution.

None of us have completely escaped this fantasy environment, nor the pathology it generates. We were too Young when the proccess began and the fantasies have been too consiestent and all-pervasive. As individuals, the only remedy is to begin asserting Independence, to become cognizant of one's own delusions and replace them with knowledge. In a tolerante environment, this process tends to occur naturally, the voids being replaced with knowledge as the delusions drop away. the dropping of belief, in favor of reciprocal knowledge and understanding, provides a shield against the emotional hooks and controls of culture.

The teaching and reinforcement of false material will continue for as long as the institutions are allowed to disseminate it. Whe should count ourselves lucky if, in our lifetime, we are able to significantly reduce the amount of propaganda that pours over us. However, such material has its greatest effects upon the unwary. If we understand its nature, we largely neutraliza the detrimental effects.

People are great kidders. Unfortunately, the thing they are best at is kidding themselves. They live, to a large degree, in their own individual worlds of make-believe. They belong to no groups free of its own set of delusions, which are told and believed, embellished and passed on. The individual is bombarded with false material and distorted reasoning from the moment of birth and, by maturity, is left with Little recognition of, or capacity for, truth as protrayed by the real cosmos. The individual lives with lies and by lies, and is free of them only in death.

Few are able to differentiate between opinión and knowledge; between groundless theories and evidence-supported premises. They have not been taught to think critically and to question authority. They have had to repress critical reasoning in order to keep the faith. The typical individual, in any culture, has Little concern for truth, becoming cynical and grappling endelessly with his or her own beliefs,  distorting perception and reasoning in a continuing struggle to make the pieces fit. Few dare discriminate between knowing and believing. Those who cannot are maleable and vulnerable to the chaos of propaganda and opinión that is endlessly pured over them.