I don’t really understand the difference between:
A comforting lie that there exists a supernatural being that grants us paradise after death if we obey priests in life.
A comforting lie that we were and are oppressed and able to achieve whatever we wish in life, rather than that our ancestors were domesticated by the same process as our livestock and for the same reasons.
The comforting lie that democratic majoritarianism produces prosperity rather than discipline, hard work, nuclear families, and suppression of reproduction by the lower classes produces such prosperity that the luxury of democratic production of commons is an affordable and peaceful way of distributing the spoils.
A comforting lie that if we pay for papers our sins will be forgiven and we can still gain entrance to paradise after death.
The comforting lie that representative agents will act in the interests of people whose disparate interests they cannot understand rather than in the interests of rose who helped them obtain a position where they can choose to act in whomever’s interest he chooses.
A comforting lie that if we pay for a parchment and memorize postmodern scripture that we will socially and economically join the middle or upper middle class.
The comforting lie that women and men are even vaguely equal in perception ability and interest rather than compatible in a reproductive, productive and perceptive division of labor.
History is replete with comforting lies.
All of these lies serve a single purpose: to obtain by fraud that which could be obtained by fully informed productive, warrantied, voluntary exchange, free of negative externality at much higher cost.
Source date (UTC): 2016-06-03 10:29:00 UTC
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