How divided people can be regarding core central fundamental topics of concern on the planet today. It’s one thing having a differing opinion on which ice cream is the tastiest or which musician is the most entertaining because these are subjective and based on personal tastes which differ from person to person. That is the joy of living in a world of variety, despite everyone being basically the same. The similarities far outweigh the differences between humans globally.
And yet when it comes to events in history, or scientific facts, we can have totally opposing points of view or perspectives of reality, which is a little odd since reality means it’s real for everyone. Reality can’t be subjective when it comes to what took place on a certain day in history or what result you will obtain if you follow a science experiment. That being said, we do get the human sciences, not hard science as such, like philosophy, theology and psychology for example. There you have a so-called science of the personality and the mind, but it is a grey area still, like the grey matter of the brain. Depending on your historical perspective you may see the human mind in varying ways, as new evidence based on research and experiment emerges every few years.
The mind is not changing as much as we are changing our minds about the mind. Or perhaps the mind is changing but the brain is the same as it ever was. And now apparently we can change the brain too via neuroplasticity. So even hard sciences change. Quantum physics has overturned Newtonian and even Einsteinian physics in recent years because now it appears as if, scientifically speaking, matter no longer obey the laws of physics as it used to in Einstein’s day. Even the observer now changes the outcome just by observation, which makes no sense but is scientific.
But what about history? Well history is written by the victors and does not always adhere to facts of events on the ground at the time. History is his story about himself. Sometimes it needs embellishing so that he can look better or hide the grey areas like an ageing person trying to hide the grey appearing in their hair, in their mind or in their outlook after too many years in the fog of London, or the fog of war. Fog can sometimes cloud the best of minds with time.
So history is not reliable any more. More literally it is the narrators of history who are not reliable. The narrative will change to suit the victors. Similarly nowadays science is also easily rewritten by those with money. Simply hire academia to write scientific reports to suit your narrative and the world will be obliged to buy it. Some may object but their voices are either drowned out or glossed over as the new popular narrative sweeps over the psyche of society. The zeitgeist of the day can be blended like a painting with all the colors you wish to instill therein, and none of them have to match reality in this expressionist impression of fudge as fact, fiction as fundamentalism.
What was scientific yesterday is redundant today, and so on into the future. This is the era not of fake news – because there was always propaganda and imagination – but the era of the knowledge that there is fake news. Now it is mainstream and accepted by everyone that news is often fake. Internet access for the entire world was a wonderful thing as it brought information to our doorsteps, but in the glut of information, truth can sometimes be lost, like a stranger in a crowd. Too much information now prohibits us from discerning which is the appropriate information to accept.
In ancient cultures before the printing press or even before the written word, all knowledge was passed on by aural reception. One simply heard from another and remembered it to repeat later to others. And since back then already, the priority was to know to whom one should listen. What is your source of information, in other words? Whom do you hear from? It’s the same today with fake news and fake science. Who can you trust in a trustless society? You can trust no one. That is what it has come to.
In many countries you can’t trust the citizens. For example Nigeria has become famous for being the land of internet scams and other outright fraudulent crime. Also China has become famous for being the country with a culture of cheating in business to make a buck. Actually there is a common aphorism in China that says that if you can get away with cheating, then go ahead and cheat. So it is socially acceptable to cheat you there, to rip you off, to con you and get a buck out of you, especially as a tourist but even as a customer. Haggling is expected so price-making starts really high, and if you fall for it then you are the sucker.
We have no concept of such cheating here in the west, but we have institutionalized cheating here too. All governments have it. The cheating propensity is there in human nature. According to the wise teachings on humanity there are four defects to human nature – the tendency to have imperfect senses, to lie, to cheat and to be easily bewildered by illusion. India and Africa are famous for government cheating, where one can bribe ones way through anything to get ones desires, regardless of law or truth or justice. And all nations probably do this, just to differing degrees. As the hero of Pirates of the Caribbean – Jack Sparrow – once said about the laws and the code: “They’re more like guidelines.”
Nothing is written in stone any more. Scientists will write science reports to suit the sponsors who pay the most, as they did with tobacco in the past century and as they do today with glyphosate, carbon emissions and climate change. There are scientists on both sides of the spectrum claiming the validity of both opposing sides of the argument, as if it was a moral debate to be decided by the greatest orator. Science no longer presents truth of facts. They too are subject to falling into the category of fake news.
We all have the cheating propensity, and will find ourselves falling into the category of cheater or cheated throughout our lives. No one can be trusted, and therefore we use the blockchain decentralized trustless open peer to peer ledger to verify smart contracts. And with all the information making us more informed today, we are less sure of the facts than ever, because now we have so many sides to the story. There are so many agendas and angles in every situation, particularly if it involves finance, like any business deal, or power, like any political scenario. Be prepared to be cheated or lied to – to your face – by everyone from the street scam artist to the scientist from academia to the president of your country.
To lie is human, as is to cheat. No one likes to think of themselves as immoral obviously but we have been brought up in a culture where honesty is lost, truth is flexible and cheating is acceptable. If our leaders can do it then so can we. And they do, all day long. In China, as I say, it is a cultural pastime to exploit the naivety of the customer to make a buck. It is enshrined in their cultural norms. It is normal to cheat. In Africa it may be less orthodox but it is equally prevalent. We are either being cheated by the lying news sources, or we are cheating and lying to some unsuspecting person in some way. Lawyers make loads of money being good at lying. They will lie to free a known criminal, if they are paid to do so. Professional liars! Why do you think the word lawyer sounds like liar?
Similarly you can tell a politician is lying when his lips are moving. It is a profession. And we the masses have little choice but to beat them or join them sometimes. What great men do, common men follow. Nothing is certain any more. You have no clear beacons of truth upon which to plot a course through the dark night of the soul. You can’t even believe your intuition anymore because it has been so programmed by incorrect algorithms from our birth and all through our upbringing, so that we misread the situation if we’re not careful. And don’t believe me either. This is just my opinion based on heresay due to a rumor regarding a fake report from imperfect senses. I mean how can you trust a person whose eye inverts everything he sees so that it is completely upside down in his brain? That’s what we do – all of us – literally.
We have been lied to by our priests who are clutching at straws, at points of light lost in translation millennia ago. Doctors, who once took the Hippocratic oath to do no harm, now work as drug pushers for Big Pharma in toxic chemistry, and you are no longer safe with them. Everything has become a commodity in our current capitalist system which isn’t even proper pure capitalism anymore. It’s crony cleptocracy with Fascist feudal undertones disguised as capitalism. We are the guinea pigs in the global experiment where the lunatics have taken over the lab, donned the white coat and are playing with the fate of humanity and of the species.
Whether we survive or not is uncertain but what is certain is that if we do survive, life will never be the same again and the future generations will have little chance to learn from our mistakes because it will all be rewritten to suit the agenda of the cheaters in control on the day. If they were to learn, we ourselves would be the ones learning from our past already but as facts and history show, we have learned little in the way of humanity, which is almost a lost cause at this point. Fortunately we can’t trust facts or history as they are often fake news, so there is hope after all.
Retiring to the mountains or forest to contemplate transcendence is the wisest move at this point. Cities are polluted and the forest is healthier. There is less harmful wireless 5G, etc present up the mountains hopefully. No news is good news when all else is fake news. This existential loss of faith in humanity does seem like a nihilistic defeat for modern millennials, which is why they have less urge to settle down and have children, like the ageing populations of EU and Japan, where the lust for life has been dampened by the fallout from a Fukushima nearby or an overexposure to plastic or fluoride in the water or an imminent global financial crash.
Who wants to bring a child into a world like this? Will there even be a world left tomorrow? Perhaps we will rise again - tomorrow being Easter Monday. Every day feels like we are on the brink of the last day for civilization now that we have the bomb, the nuke, the laser, the satellite, the radar, the microwave, the 5G, the Fukushimas, the frackers, the climate changers, the climate deniers, the Monsantos, the USAs the Israels, the North Koreas, the Bilderbergs, the Georgia Guide Stones and the people like you and me. Let me shuffle off this mortal coil tonight so that I can awake tomorrow anew or make way for the new transgender transhuman trance mutant from Transylvania. I hope they like what we’ve done to the place.
