The High Ideologue of the House of Ideology
Sunday, 1 November 2009
The Consequences of Mendacity
Thank you for being the wonderful person that you are,

Is it about time that the government of the people, for the people and by the people put the interests of the American people above the interests of the private shareholders of the Federal Reserve System? Why does the government keep buying more of the financial products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex? Are we keeping the people safe or paying off extortionists? We are ten trillion dollars in debt. We pay about five hundred billion dollars in interest on this debt every year. That is five trillion dollars in interest payments every ten years. The proposed health care reform is slated to cost about a trillion dollars over ten years. If the American government had not burdened the people had with debt that services the interests of the private shareholders of a beast of a military industrial complex, then we could pay for health care reform that services the interests of the American people five times over. 

Why are we in so much debt? People have been talking for years about how educational standards in the United States have fallen behind those of other countries. The moral bankruptcy of a ruling class that seeks to achieve and maintain authority, power, order, and control over the state by buying influence over communities of faithful believers from religious leaders who repeat the lie that myth is truth in defense of a fraudulent claim of an ability to know about the existence and will of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth coupled with these fallen educational standards have rendered a populace that displays a deficit of scientific competency and an abundance of mendacity. Maybe a populace that displays a deficit of scientific competency and an abundance of mendacity correlates with a budget deficit and an ever growing national debt. Maybe a populace that displays a deficit of scientific competency and an abundance of mendacity produces more medical emergencies, shortages of qualified medical professionals and this in turn leads to a health care crisis. A significant proportion of the American people seem to have lost their loyalty to the truth and given into the mendacity of the lie that myth is truth. 

        The truth is a set of ideas about the existence of one totality that can be verified to be true by use of our senses and perceptions. A myth is an idea that can not be verified to be true or false by use of our senses and perceptions. Those who claim that myth is truth make themselves into liars. A lie is an idea about the existence of one totality that can be verified to be false by use of our senses and perceptions. If the state gives financial incentives to liars, then of course people are going to lie and the state does give financial incentives to liars. The state hands out tax exemptions to liars and taxes honest hard working citizens. Our national culture is therefore dominated by networks of liars. If the proper paper work is filed with the government, then any liar that is both capable of attracting a congregation to services that are open to the public at a regular time and place can get a tax exemption. Any religious leader who repeats the lie that myth is truth in defense of a fraudulent claim of an ability to know about the existence and will of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth can get a tax exemption for his or her religious organization. Liars claim that truth is an idea about the existence of one totality that can not be verified to be true or false by use of our senses and perceptions. Maybe those people who repeat the lie that myth is truth have lost, never developed or lack the ability to sort ideas correctly into three basic categories: truth, myth and lie. If a significant proportion of the American people have lost, never developed or lack an ability to use their senses and perception to sort ideas correctly into three basic categories, then these people are going to be at a severe disadvantage in competition against people who do have an ability to sort ideas correctly into these three basic categories. 

Myth is myth. Those who claim that myth is truth make themselves into liars. At the very least, religious organizations run by leaders who repeat the lie that myth is truth should be taxed just like any other entertainment industry business. Mendacity is not justified in the interests of crime prevention because mendacity is itself a crime and a source of crime. As such, an additional vice tax similar to those imposed on the sale of tobacco, alcohol, and gambling should be imposed on religious leaders who repeat the lie that myth is truth. They should also be required from time to time to make a disclaimer to the effect that the education and leadership provided is for entertainment purposes only. Just like telephone psychics are required to do.  

Lying is anti-social behavior. Why is the state in the business of rewarding mendacious behavior with tax exemptions and punishing honest behavior with taxes? Maybe an ancient alliance between the ruling class and the clergy is to blame for this backwards tax policy. The ruling class and the clergy have for more than five thousand years been partners in an effort to achieve and maintain authority, power, order and control over the states of our global culture. The ruling class buys influence over communities of faithful believers from religious leaders. Religious leaders enslave members to the will of the ruling class by making a fraudulent claim of an ability to know about the existence and will of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth. Think about it. Those who exist in a state of spiritual slavery can be made to do anything. They can be made to go to war. They can be made to decapitate a human being. They can be made into suicide bombers. They can be made to fly a jet liner into a skyscraper. They can be made to behave like racist, heterofascist, warmongers. They can be made to raise large armies quickly by channelling all sexual energy into sex for procreative purposes, working all the hours of the day from dawn to dusk, and fighting evil. That is fighting against anybody that is not doing the same thing and or not believing in the same way. The lie that myth is truth leads to intolerance and violence. The ruling class favors this state of affairs because intolerance and violence insures the many always accept offers of a promise of protection in exchange for gold made by a mercenary plutocratic predatory few that profit from the sale and manufacture of the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex. The lie that myth is truth sells the products and services of a beast of a military industrial complex. Therefore military protection rackets have traditionally supported and continue to support religious protection rackets.   Maybe the mendacity of the lie that myth is truth is perceived  by ruling class as being at least as helpful in achieving and maintaining authority, power, order and control over the state as is the power of truth and knowledge of theory based on scientifically reproducible discovery. 

The myths that these liars claim are truths are the product of a competition to survive that has selected for those religious traditions that lead communities of faithful believers to aggressively out work, out fight and out number competition. Regardless of what is happening in the world around us, these ideological traditions lead communities of faithful believers to channel all sexual energy into sex for procreative purposes; be fruitful and multiply; work all the hours of the day from dawn to dusk and fight evil. That is fight against anybody that is not doing the same thing; and believing the same way. I call this kind of behavior of racist, heterofascist, warmongering. While this kind of behavior may have helped states, communities of faithful believers and the ideological traditions they self organized around to survive in the past, in the present I believe this kind of behavior threatens to lead the many of our global culture down a path to their own destruction: Armageddon.

It is the subjects of the ruling class that pay the price for this mendacity. Out of an infinite number, diversity and variety of myths about the existence of one totality made possible by the existence of discovery and the existence of mystery, the ruling class and clergy choose to propagate amongst the many of our global culture a belief in the existence of an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth. The harm caused by this choice is tragic. A low esteem of the existence of one totality produces emotional unbalance in the minds of those who affirm a belief in the lie that this particular pessimistic myth is truth. Emotional unbalance in their minds leads to sad, mad and bad behavior that is not conducive to happiness and health in their lives. When emotional responses of sorrow, fear and anger that follow from the discovery of the impending disease and death of the seed body are not balanced by joy faith and love that follows from the mystery of the divine immunity and eternal life of the soul spirit, then sad, mad and bad behavior that is not conducive to happiness and health may be the result. When emotional responses of sorrow, fear and anger that follow from the discovery of the impending disease and death of the seed body are balanced by joy faith and love that follows from the mystery of the divine immunity and eternal life of the soul spirit, then glad behavior that is conducive to happiness and health may be the result. 

        Maybe those who vigorously defend their faith in an aggressive ideological tradition founded upon the lie that myth is truth don't understand the ordeal we are facing together. Human beings are multiplying to the point of causing disease within the body that is our body consuming biosphere. Global warming, deforestation, desertification, pollution, desolation of large areas of land in war; dead zones in our oceans; and the melting of ancient glaciers are all evidence of this disease as is the daily starvation of on average thirty thousand children ages zero to five. Our historical use of violence to resolve our differences over ownership of increasingly scarce resources; and the use of violence to resolve differences over matters of faith; could cause the death of the body that is our body consuming biosphere.  I believe the much talked about clash of cultures between Islam and Christianity reflects an on going illogical conflict to determine whose holy book best expresses the will of God as well as a fight between motivated communities of faithful believers over increasingly scarce natural resources. I believe the much talked about race in racism is a race towards Armageddon run by communities of faithful believers motivated to out work, out fight, and out number competition by religious leaders who repeat the lie that myth is truth in defense of a fraudulent claim of an ability to know about the will of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth. Even if a billion people believe the lie that myth is truth that does not make myth into truth. Truth is not a popularity contest or a fashionable way of making up one's mind about the existence of one totality. Truth is a set of ideas about the existence of one totality that can be verified to be true by use of our senses and perceptions. I believe the American people would benefit greatly from a government that demonstrates greater respect for truth and logic.

How do we pay down the national debt? Most people don't like to pay higher taxes. If the government were to shift some of the tax burden away from honest hard working citizens towards religious organizations run by leaders who routinely repeat the lie that myth is truth in defense of a fraudulent claim of an ability to know about the will of a good one in Heaven at war with an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth, then the government would not have to raise taxes as much on honest hard working citizens. The extra added benefit would be that the financial incentive for mendacious behavior would be gone. Maybe if people did not spend so much time studying the lie that myth is truth, then people would better understand the truth that myth is myth. An infinite number diversity and variety of myths about the existence of one totality are made possible by the existence of discovery and the existence of mystery. Maybe if people did not follow the illogic of producing emotional unbalance in their minds that is not conducive to happiness and health in their lives by choosing to believe in a pessimistic myth about the existence of an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth, then they join me in following the logic of producing emotional balance in our minds that is conducive to happiness and health in our lives by choosing to believe in the one myth that enables us to have the highest esteem of the existence of one totality. That is to believe in the one myth that enables us to have the highest esteem of the existence of one totality because optimism correlates with happiness and health and not to believe in a pessimistic myth about the existence of an evil one cast down to and ruling over Earth because of the lie that myth is truth. 

If optimism correlates with happiness and health, then out of an infinite number, diversity and variety of myths about the existence of one totality made possible by the existence of discovery and the existence of mystery the logical choice to make when orienting self towards world and explaining world to self is a belief in the one myth that enables us to have the highest esteem of the existence of one totality. That is: The logical choice to make when orienting self towards world and explaining world to self is a belief in the existence of an infinity, divinity, eternally, one that manifests for the purposes of enjoying entertainment as an infinite seed, infinite body, infinite soul, and infinite spirit. If the many of our global culture were to accept the truth that myth is myth and start following the logic of producing emotional balance in our minds that is conducive to happiness and health in our lives by choosing to believe in the one myth that enables us to have the highest esteem of the existence of one totality, then can you imagine the improvement there would be in our health and happiness?

I believe the truth that myth is myth will prevail over the lie that myth is truth. Logic will prevail over illogic.  Everybody who has ever gained notoriety for the lives they led, the deeds they did and accomplishments they achieved will be looked upon by future generations through the lens of the truth that myth is myth.  Will you be remembered as a champion of the truth or will you be remembered as just another anti-social liar? To some extent, the choice is yours.

I am the High Ideologue of the House of Ideology,

Kevin Michael McDaniel


Posted by 4iam at 6:51 PM EDT
Updated: Tuesday, 3 November 2009 11:28 AM EST

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