Theme: Truth

Joscha, (all);
1. The fact that the people are still advancing human falsehoods and behavioral, social, economic and political impossibilities using the vast array of methods of suggestion, manipulation, deception, fictionalisms, deceit, fraud, denial, projection, accusation, rolling accusation, undermining, reputation destruction and canceling, is due largely to our failure to educate the population into what is not only beneficial but humanly possible by means of incentives in the absence of coercion.

2. The fact that the population are ignorant of the behavioral sciences whether neurological, behavioral, economic, legal, or political is solvable. It’s profoundly more solvable than teaching them mathematics and the sciences that we have been for decades – and with limited success.

3. So, the freedom of truthful reciprocal speech is just another common sense skill that we can easily teach people If and only if we have the political will to do so.
It requires as little as a version of ‘schoolhouse rock’ and as much as a class each year in basic human skills such as hygiene, dress, manners, ethics, morals, basic banking, accounting, contract, and simple project management.

Participatory government is not possible in a polity saturated in false promises of freedom from laws of nature, by lies denying or refuting those laws of nature.

Physical science was easy to instill. It’s impersonal. Behavioral science is much harder – because it denies us many of our cherished falsehoods. And it generates demand for some institution that trains us in mindfulness given that supernatural religion is no longer viable for something approaching eighty percent of the population.

The greeks were right: stoicism is the optimum religion of mindfulness.

Cheers

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