Truth-Discounted

Dem Pills are Poison

“The masses have never thirsted after truth. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim.” — Gustave Le Bon

I do not know Gustave Le Bon, but this strikes me as more elitist inversion. In a world where the best ego polishers (lairs) get ahead, the masses cannot compete. Parasites also do not thirst for truth, and so love, revere and spread their illusions.

I have been doing the ‘truth’ bit, while recognizing limitations, since I was quite young, where I suggest to who ever will listen, that our root assumptions about a variety of issues may produce internal consistency and yet have little relation to reality. In fact, regular people can handle this (and variations) better than ‘smart’ folk can. The smart people, those better able to expose illusions, instead use their ‘greater brain power’ to make ‘better’ illusions. (IRL I can turn on a ‘lets do philosophy switch’, in folks head that smart folk elect to turn off more quickly than do regular folk.)

Generational trauma creates reactive mind orientations, yet some generations make awesome progress in reducing or changing their ‘triggers’ into less dysfunctional expressions. We have all witnessed this and it may be the basic way that the masses thirst for truth in this ocean of lies. Some of us drown and others learn to swim. Our truth is experiential while intellectuals truth is consensual.

It is true that destroying illusions is no way to make or keep friends, but it may help one develop charm, good nature and a strategic focus on words being used, and an inclination to not judge others because it’s clear that we are all creatures heavily influenced by our conditioning.

At any rate, I am no victim and am able to say more things than has been the case in the past so I am happy for that.

This post was supposed to address how bad can hide behind good and be used to distract from or hide truth, and this came out. It will do for now, Happy New Year to all and to all that you love.