big placebos

Placebo

A lie or foolishness you keep believing in out of sloth or fear.

Government

Grouping of gangs loosely connected mostly seeking to capture funding.

State

Juridical fiction.

Nation

Demagogic appeal.

Democracy

A set of decision-making procedures, largely untested, basically illusory.

Majority

Manipulation of masses, usually around dogmatic thinking.

The People

Mob, rabble.

Society

Grouping of mobs.

Power

A kind of addiction.

Army (or the monopoly of violence)

Method for systematic brutalization.

The Law

Stabilization of privilege obtained through knavery.

Moral Standards

Prejudice.

Religion

Channelling of sexual energies for political gain.

The Bible

Slopish editorial job upon clandestine sources.

Traditions

Social dynamics invalidated in large scales of population or time.

Family

Meshing of emotional blackmail.

Race

Incest and inbreeding.

Maternity

Imprinting of our fears upon our siblings.

Love

Bad fiction, mostly towards hiding of reproductive habits.

Sex

Blind impulse.

Instincts

Predictable reactions, therefore exploitable.

Nature

Bad interpretation of Odum.

Survival of the fittest

Bad interpretation of Darwin, whom referred only to circumstantial luck.

Evolution

Biological process that is mostly verified, that explains almost nothing without a much better explanation of random mutation than biology currently posses.

Capitalism

Bad interpretation of Das Kapital, a book left unfinished with the death of the author.

The Market

Misleading advertisement from autocratic governments like the British Monarchy of the XVII century.

Money

Energy storing device, disconnected from energy sources themselves, thus always a consequence and not a cause.

Industry

Figurehead for big military complexes.

Newtonian Physics

Successful manoeuvre happened at XVIII century England.

General Relativity

Misleading advertisement for the USA war machine.

Petroleum

ROI fastly declining.

Internet

Cabling without inherent tendencies.

Press

Self-referential heraldics.

Technique / Engineering

Familiarity.

Technology

A machine that was not designed to maximize human being’s happiness.

Mathematics

Behavioural conditioning applied to ADD children so they ignore the context of ideas.

Science

Attempt at showing oneself smarter than others.

Arts

Attempt at showing oneself more sophisticated than others.

Culture

Supposed unity of unrelated immaterial works.

Genius

Folkloric tale from de-contextualized biography.

Thinking

Imitative behaviour.

Future

A place whose prevalence, reality and purpose depend on yourself, a construction of yours, whether you want it or not, whether you believe in all the placebos or whether you can see the illusion. No one creates their own histories by mere whim, but neither can one refrain from inscribing one’s own attitude amidst the world. This is not «government do-it-yourself», but actually realizing that maybe government someday will fail, maybe religion will fail, morals and love and science will maybe fail, and so on, and that, if this comes to pass, what remains is: YOU.