Over the past year, I have been trying to come to terms with the fake “realities” of our time. It appears that we now live in an age of deception and illusions and in an age of insanity on a global scale. We are beginning to appreciate that many of our chronic physical, mental, and social diseases are “normal” adaptations to abnormal circumstances, be they due to mutagenic genetic inheritances, life-despoiling environmental exposures or unhealthy lifestyle choices forced upon us by life-disabling social determinants. Unbelievably, most of these “abnormalities” have been enabled and sustained by our institutions of governance that have put the primacy of money-value over and above that of life value! As a result of this perpetual war on the value of life, we end up legitimizing and normalizing dysfunctional and pathological thinking and behaviour, and as a result we are oblivious to the damage we are doing to ourselves, our communities and our planet, even when the evidence of our maladaptive behaviours are “hidden” right there in plain sight. Even worse, we end up celebrating the “wisdom” of psychopaths whom we chose as stewards of our institutions. These “wise psychopaths” have maintained their priviledge by mastering the science and art of perception managment as they have endeavoured and continue to do so by cognitively framing our collective false perceptions into their “true reality”.
