Lies and Deception
Every profession requires a core set of skills for success. These are the two most needed in the fields of collectivism found extensively in politics and public administration.
Lexicon of pejoratives.
In recent years, the number of words and phrases that have been classed as ‘racist’ or ‘politically incorrect’ has grown thanks to the many “morally righteous” busy bodies among us. Better known as “snowflakes”, these delicate souls are forever on the watch for ways that their feelings might be bruised by someone else who insensitively (or maliciously) says the wrong thing.
Allow me to officially add three more to the ever growing Lexicon of Pejoratives.
Politician
Public official
The public
The first two are professions that are notorious for their reliance on lies and deception in order to achieve success.
The Public is required
I added ‘the public’ to the Lexicon for the follow reason. Success in the two professions named is not possible unless a majority of eligible, willing and gullible voters believe the lies and deceptions they’re told, and are foolish enough to go into an election booth to vote for their preferred brand of lies and deception. Their choice of vote gives them some sort of completely naive and unwarranted feelings of hope for a “better life”.
Collectivism only serves politicians and public officials.
Understanding the difference between your life lens versus their perception will reveal the flaws with the entire notion of collectivism as practiced by politicians and governments officials everywhere. The explanation begins with an irrefutable fact:
Every human being has his or her own life to live which is separate from every other.
We each possess one mind which is distinct from every other mind.
Consciousness is the only faculty of mind with which to think, feel, and be aware of every moment of our lives - past and present.
It goes without saying that no one can experience the consciousness of another human being much less a community of human beings or an entire nation.
When a central planner is asked to create a plan which reflects the notion of “social justice” in order to achieve “the greater good”, he or she can only work from one mind. The planner must imagine what the minds of others hold.
Consider the meaning of one’s life lens. It is the aggregation of every thought, feeling, lesson learned, and moment of awareness that a person has experienced over a lifetime up to and including the current moment. This aggregation forms an ever-evolving ‘psychic’ lens through which we perceive and evaluate each and every new moment that we encounter. Each moment is experienced by our consciousness and all of the circumstances that accompany that moment of awareness. It’s the ultimate personal experience than cannot possibly be shared at the level of consciousness.
A perception, on the other hand, is the expression of someone’s momentary thoughts and feelings. It represents a temporary and fleeting glimpse into another’s life lens. It can never come close to approximating the richness contained within the other’s life lens.
In the case of the planner, whatever he or she considers “the greater good” of society is, in reality, only a “figment of his or her imagination”. It is assembled from his or her life lens which may include the perceptions gleaned from others’ views on any given topic. When the planner plans, he or she derives content from those figments of imagination. Ultimately, the complete plan is used to “inform” public policy and elements of it may eventually become encoded into legislation. This is how the foundation of collectivism is extended and our governments continue to grow.
The growing body of legislation contains the prescribed rules and constraints which have been considered by planners and elected politicians. The responsible government agencies have the fiduciary obligation to create the processes and procedures of enforcement. They also hire, train and supervise all enforcement personnel.
To enforce all public policies consistently and effectively, more lies and deceptions must be told to the public. This is essential to continually convince a gullible and naive public of the alleged and ongoing merit of the public’s compliance, and acceptance of the taxation required to sustain the labour-intensive nature of their operations. Public sector labour unions also join in the dissemination of public services propaganda, especially during elections for obvious reasons.
Truth is relative and subjective.
In The Books of Absolutes, Canadian author William D. Gairdner attempted to argue that there are truths held within human societies that are unassailable. He failed this in my opinion. He did not appreciate the difference between perception and life lens. Bill has written many books and generally writes from the ‘collectivist’ perspective. As such, his books have never sufficiently acknowledged the uniqueness of each and every life lens that has ever existed in each and every human being.
‘Truth’, of course, can legitimately be divided into the categories of “social truth’ and “personal truth”. The former is a language construct that is convenient and useful for government-employed social planners and social philosophers like Bill. The latter is lived truth and is necessarily subjective. Only the individual can truly know his or her own mind. Any attempt to define collective “truth” is obviously a figment of imagination and must be treated so.
My “truth” about collectivist social planning
The larger that a government becomes, the more embedded the “collective truth” becomes into our every day lives as the manifestation in our massive compendium of enforceable laws and regulations. Relentless government growth has encroached steadily on the freedoms of informed choice that individuals are allowed to exercise according to their own life lens.
Lived experience is the only reality in the mind of every human being. Collectivist social planning is mired in perpetual lies and deception. This is my truth.
Let that inconvenient fact sink into your consciousness and then try to tell me why I might be wrong to be an ardent Advocate for Less Government.
