The Lies Humanity Tells Itself 1/4
There is no life without passion – sure, there is!
In reality, the only way our normal and dull life continues is by stifling and killing whatever passion stands in its way. Surely it is not the life we dream about, but that is exactly the point: by design, what we dream about is not supposed to be what we live!
Some people might escape from this classical trap, but only for short periods of time; then they fall back into it and carry on following the steady and passionless stream of normal life.
Eventually, and with age, passion becomes a good memory at best (if we lived a passion in our past life and our brains are still intact and able to remember it).
Very few, unique individuals keep trying all their lives to live their passions, many of them become insane, and all of them die young, drunkard or overdosed.
I love you more than I love myself – danger ahead, escape! A sentence that can only be told to our children! Outside of that context, it is often an exaggeration, therefore a lie, or it is really genuine and in this case it is extremely unhealthy and a recipe for disaster!
When we love someone more than we love ourselves, then we cease to exist when the other disappears from our lives. Since most relations do not end like Romeo’s and Juliette’s, hence the big lie.
Some relations do lead to the suicide of one of the lovers, and it is always the one who loved the other more than they loved themselves… what a tragedy, but then again who am I to judge which is the better choice for that person, life without the lover or death!
All people are equal – in front of death, and only death!
As Coluche (a French stand-up comedian) used to say: “all people are equal, but some are more equal than others”.
We are not born with equal chances, we are not brought up with equal love and affection, we are not given equal opportunities in succeeding in our lives, and we are not granted equal physical resilience against sickness and deceases!
Yes, everyone will eventually die, with unequal levels and quantities of suffering. It is ironic that even in the act of death, the only moment of equality among humans, there is a differential treatment (more or less suffering) among people in the period leading to the completion of that act!
Justice is for all – who is “all”, where does he/she live?
When the leader of any country is asked about justice, they reply without any hesitation: “justice is for all our citizens”. They are not semantically lying, since justice is “supposed” to be for all citizens. What they omit to say, and this is where their first answer becomes a risible lie, is “in practice, the system start by distributing justice to the wealthy and powerful until it runs out of justice at some level down the chain, then it stops because it cannot give what it doesn’t have”.
If you want justice, you have to demand it with force and determination or even better you have to be part of those who bestow it. Anything less than that will leave you at the mercy of luck and human subjective idea of fairness.
We all have freedom of choice – to choose what and from what?
Are we free to choose when and where we will be born? What about all the surprises (from a bird shitting on our head to escaping from a plane crash because our taxi got stuck in traffic) that happen to us during our lives, or the decisions we made when we had to choose between the bad and the worse (jump from the window of the 20th floor or get burned by the fire) or where there is only one viable choice (kill the person who is coming to kill you)?
When choice doesn’t matter as much, and these moments do represent, in term of quantity but not importance, the majority of our existence, then we have all the freedom, the time and even the leisure we need to weigh the pros and the cons and decide on what we believe is the best course of actions for ourselves and to a large extent to the people we love. And eventually, one time out of two we end up making the wrong choice, so you really wonder what is the point of freedom of choice after all, but that is another story…
Forgiveness helps you turn the page – don’t we wish!
When offered the possibility of an “unsanctioned” revenge from the man who killed your children after raping your wife, will you decline because in your heart you forgave him and therefore you turned the page? I sincerely doubt it!
Actually, the biggest lie in the above statement is its first word: . There aren’t many words in the dictionary in the same category of this one. This word, forgiveness, exists without a real and concrete example of its realization. God, angels, hell, heaven, … also belong to that same category. People believe in them, without ever really experiencing them, in their awaking life.
Forgiveness is an illusion, and anything that is a consequence of it, such as forgetfulness, is just another illusion.
Monogamy is a woman invention – nothing is further from the truth!
If a woman can choose the best father for her children, then most of them will choose the handsome and the wealthy, as opposed to the ugly and the poor, and since there are as many women as men on earth, the ugly and the poor will get no women at all. Wise and powerful men considered this kind of situation unacceptable, as it is definitely a sure recipe for constant social unrest and mutiny, so they enforced 1 husband, 1 wife at a time concept, thus making sure women are distributed more or less equally among all men, the ugly and the poor as well as the handsome and the wealthy.
Nowadays, with the possibility and the simplicity of divorce, monogamy as a concept has lost its meaning and has become outdated. Wealthy people are living in a pseudo polygamy, as they can divorce and re-marry as much as their money allow them to… Beautiful people (women and men) are the biggest beneficiaries of this contemporary development.
To be Continued ...