Lies About Lies
Which part is true?
Everyone is accused of lying, which happens to be true. How do we winnow out the truth from the firehose of lies, and is that even possible? A more fundamental question is whether it is worth the effort.
Yes, to both questions, but the process is challenging and messy. Our current evolutionary hurdle is achieving the recovery of truth.
Failure is the permanent loss of our species’ planetary future. However, the question is not what we should do or believe but what we must avoid.
It does not mean that we will all die if we don’t get this right, but it may mean that the great majority of those who survive this process will wish they had died. A small minority will continue to be happy or, at least, fearless and vastly wealthy.
As a friend who is a retired economics professor pointed out to me, we are steadily being returned to the status of serfs, who were required to work for a lord and tied to that lord’s estate. The absence of historical education in higher education lessens the complaints from the population who do not know what a serf is.
Is that what we want?
That question is not facetious. Since the rise of civilizations, most of human history has been committed to mass sacrifice for the pleasure of a tiny elite.
