THE ORIGIN OF SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION:
The Pathology of Cultural Delusion

There is something fundamentally wrong with human cultures, a chronic insanity that humanity passes from one generation to the next, in endless pathogenic cycles. That disease has a simple origin, a fundamental delusion about the nature of existence. The disease now threatens the future of the species. The disease is progressive, growing as institutionalized systems grow, erecting barriers to solving our problems and codifying additional delusion in support of and expansion of current defective premises and practices. This problem increasingly threatens all life on Earth as human populations increase.

This basic pathology has reached lethal levels and progressively destroys the individual's ability to function, maintaining populations at levels of rationality too low to recognize or move in corrective directions. This disease progressively reduces Earth's capacity to support life. As populations grow beyond resource capacities of their environments, the rich and diverse ecological systems are stripped, consumed, polluted and laid waste.

Conceptual disease corrupts and dements, to some degree, every human being. The multitudes, the poor and less educated, are the most vulnerable and become the largest pools of victims and dysfunctionals, parasites unable to understand their human condition and the nature of their problems.

This is a disease that has been carried by the species throughout its history, but we are approaching a critical point in human development where the cumulative ignorance and misdirection is threatening the carrying capacity of the planet. This is a lethal problem that will be corrected or we will perish as intelligent life. For all the many forms the disease takes, the fundamental pathogen and root cause is untruth in the form of culturally bourn and instituted delusion.

Humanity is at a cusp where the species will be required to make real corrections in areas where it has failed to do so throughout the whole course of its history. It must do so or degenerate. Worse, this correction process will have to take place within a shrinking time frame, as our numbers increase and we accelerate the destruction of Earth's capacity to support intelligent life.

The magnitude of the problem cannot truly be imagined, as it amounts to the deliberate reorientation of the species to factual reality, against counter pressures internal to the individual, as well as virtually every human institution. There is no quick fix. The impetus for such fundamental change must come from the energies and direct approach to those who recognize the problem.

However, this change is now possible. Humanity has the natural ability to correct, and we have compiled the necessary knowledge, even as to the basic nature and mechanisms of fundamental existence. We have plumbed its very depths and its basic secrets have been discovered, mathematized and charted. We now have the possibility of the larger numbers of humanity understanding the truth, the way things move, develop, degenerate and regenerate, in an endless kaleidoscope of being. We know what and we know how. Nor should there be any question now as to the lethal effects of belief, the fundamental conceptual disease.

We have stepped beyond the pale of opinion, of myth, of social traditions, of culture, of state. Yet, for all the wonders the few have made possible, the multitude must undergo great changes before humanity can shed its primitive superstitions, its belief in ghosts, spirits, gods and the dark dreams of the supernatural.

Only when the curtains of delusion begin to fall away, can the light of truth pour in, filling the dark voids of ignorance. Only then will we begin to correct the damage we have done to human mentality. Only then will we stem our destruction of Mother Earth and the other life forms upon which we depend for our own continued existence. Only then will we begin to effectively address the question of our own survival, as a species. It is time for humanity to become a truly intelligent life form.

The multitude possesses but a primitive awareness of the great and largely malevolent forces that shape their lives under the guise of respected institutions and necessary governing. Few of our kind have harnessed activity to any but the rudest intermittent reasoning, moved largely by emotional bias and the pressures of our societies. The great multitudes are driven by programming that serves to maintain institutional control and power. Well mixed within the functional attributes of our institutions are the pathologies that generate social dysfunction and parasitical behavior. Populations are moved by primitive urges and vague notions tied to culturally bourn delusion and mandates, unable to recognize the realities through the fog of propaganda.

They struggle to suppress the growing awareness of their own delusion and misdirection. To do otherwise would entail relinquishing cherished fantasies and beliefs, their ignorance and their imagined innocence.

Although human populations are increasingly exposed to the real picture of existence, where happenings and developments reflect real cause and effect, and where gods and spirits become meaningless, they continue in a state of denial. Such has been the case throughout history, little changed even in the face of quantum leaps in acquired knowledge. We continue in our various cultural delusions, in spite of the rise of science and technology, the routine progress made in detecting nature's secrets, disclosing the factual nature of life and the most fundamental principles of the Cosmos. Our primitive beliefs endure.

The basic premises, relevant to the nature of existence, are so vital to the cognizance of intelligent life that, to some degree, our delusions color and distort virtually all human thought. Some unknown but high percentage of the recorded thought of humanity, the contents of our greatest freedomries, world wide, are now seen as invalid in light of our new knowledge. Yet, the realities that would allow us to correct, the fundamentals of which have been presented in this book, will find greater resistance than anything ever presented to mankind. These ideas will disturb more vested interest than anything in history. They will undercut fundamental premises in all cultures. The foundations of our religions and the basic premises upon which nations operate will be shown to be the gravest threats to the species as an intelligent life form. The open display of factual existence will drastically modify conceptual foundations in virtually every area of human activity.

In view of the vital necessity of rapid corrections on a species-wide scale, and the pathogen's ability to hold humanity in helpless ignorance, the propagation of belief now emerges as humanity's greatest cultural pathogen, threatening the very existence of genus Homo.

At present, few can accept the factual nature of the unveiled Cosmos. But, none can refute it. Reality can be hidden or denied, but cannot be made it go away. With time, the numbers who come to recognize the real nature of existence will increase. The imponderable is whether or not popular enlightenment will come soon enough.

In attempting to deny reality, to circumvent the necessities of nature, can be found the basis for each and every human folly. In accepting nature and natural systems, and working within them, lies our maximum potential as individuals and as a species.

As we increasingly accept the realities, the fundamental pathogen of delusion dissolves. All we need is to muster a little courage. Making the transition from operating on primitive ideas and premises to recognizing, accepting and using the energies and controls of factual existence will be absolutely essential to sustainable human existence. Getting there is the greatest problem the species has ever faced, and constitutes Humanity's Ultimate Challenge. Unless this challenge is met, the species will quickly degenerate, together with the environments it destroys.

However, every individual who makes the transition from belief to factual knowledge of the real Cosmos will be re-energized, becoming an asset for positive change, rather than part of the problem. With the nature of the problem clearly in focus, humanity should win.

There will be herculean efforts to deny this knowledge. There will be efforts to ignore this knowledge. There will be efforts to discount it. There will be efforts to suppress it There will be efforts to destroy it. But, the realities will not go away, nor can we make the realities addressed here be anything but what they are, in and of themselves.

We cannot evade nature's mandate for continuing adjustment and correction to endless change, as our environments endlessly change. We cannot evade the effects of denying the realities.

Our instituted systems of untruth now threaten us at every turn. Understanding this gives our species the possibility of averting disaster. We do not have to maintain our delusions. We do not have to perpetuate the lies of our cultures. We do not have to destroy our host planet as would a mindless parasite.

As problems increase, so do the pressures to truly address their root causes. Out of this need, we already see increasing numbers of individuals rejecting the blather and the ineffectiveness of institutions, speaking out and taking direct action. Every indication is that this trend will accelerate, eventually moving the institutions in the direction of positive change.

There is every indication that increasing numbers of individuals are taking off the rose-tinted glasses and having a closer look at the realities. We all have that spark of rationality within us, no matter how deeply it is buried. Although the mindless masses continue to seek escape in fantasy, delusions and diversions, many are beginning to take a second look at the insanities. Each one will help pave the way for others.

Although we are seeing an increasing number of rational indices within our various cultures, there is a plenitude of pitfalls on the path to cultural system correction. Many of these pitfalls represent problem areas which are unpleasant and, therefore, avoided by the greater numbers.

Safety and progress depends upon a lot of 'ifs': If an increased shift from pockets of rationality to popular rationality can be achieved. If the non-functional members of societies are prevented from destroying technology and sapping our resources. If the destructive aspects of government can be sufficiently blunted and eventually excised. If religion can be given mass exposure for what it really is and its influence as a barrier to learning can be severely reduced. If productive international economic and informational networks can continue to grow, reducing the pressures for international conflict and 'If' the rational members of the species can be woven into unofficial networks so that concerted efforts to address real problems and change the direction of our institutions can be made.

Perhaps the greatest 'If' of all is If populations can be reduced without destroying the knowledge, technology and infrastructure of societies and the carrying capacity of the planet.

The greatest threat to humankind, in terms of war, is generated by differences in ideologies and the ability to maintain comfortable levels of living for populations. These differences can only be reduced by attacking the fundamental falsehoods and by the continued intermingling of productive affairs across national boundaries, the recognition that we are bound together as a species and that a problem for one people is a problem for all peoples.

In Theocracies, nations governed by a religion, virtually every individual is a true believer, or must pretend to be so. It is illegal to be otherwise, as well as being exceedingly dangerous. Belief is not only a cultural imperative, but the law. Out of such environments, it is difficult for rational leadership to emerge. Not only is rationality all but nonexistent, it is not tolerated.

These areas will continue to be sources of trouble so long as they remain isolated. Only intercourse with divergent cultures and concepts can weaken the iron grip of delusions inherent in theocracies. Such governments always press for cultural isolation for obvious reasons.

As global changes escalate, as well as attendant problems, the voices of the great fantasy factories will become louder and their pronouncements and activities increasingly shrill and ridiculous. Much of their nonsense should collapse under the weight of its own absurdity. The problem of covering lies with additional lies becomes obvious and ludicrous. In the days ahead, there will be plenty of opportunity to see the unmasked faces of our cultural parasites.

What is becoming increasingly clear is that we are not helpless. However, we do need to guard our channels of communication, being able to see, discuss and disseminate the realities largely hidden within the delusional fog. We must carefully guard our abilities to communicate and increasingly exercise individual autonomy.

The problem of overpopulation is much worse than we have been led to believe, and represents the greatest physical problem area. Of one thing we can be certain. The problem of overpopulation is going to be addressed one way or another, either by reason or by human default. Judging by the effects human populations have had on ocean life during the past fifty years, and the rate at which that life is diminishing, Earth's human population (more accurately, infestation) is probably at least five times the number this planet can support without progressive degeneration of ecological systems and Earth's capacity to support life.

The problem of overpopulation could best (most humanely) be corrected through a process of natural attrition, that of introducing birth preventing systems while allowing timely death.

Today, we routinely use medical means to extend life beyond the individual's desire or effectiveness. It would be highly rational to decriminalize suicide, allowing the individual to choose his or her own time and means of death and prevent wasted resources and the mindless misery of slow death as the body atrophies and systems slowly cease their functions.

The problem of overpopulation is not just one of numbers, but of the quality of human life. The categories of people who are the least suited for parenting, and who are the least effective, providing populations with the lowest mentality, the highest levels of superstition, ignorance, dependency and criminality, are the ones with the highest birth rates. They are the poorest and the most deluded and constitute a net loss to any society and to the species. They also constitute the greatest pool of human suffering. Truly beginning to educate would turn these least fortunate into part of the solution instead of the manifest problem.

Because of our delusions, beliefs and ideals, we fail to recognize human populations for what they are in their present forms, recognizing them as parasites destroying their host.

The human animal is the most destructive of all life forms, but only because of its programming. Our redeeming virtue is the window of possibility offered by the intellect, the potential to enhance the Earth environment instead of destroying it. Our intelligence, if we choose to use it, is our only hope of preventing the gathering storm of ecological and social destruction. We will not make the necessary use of our intelligence while operating on our present premise structures. We have dysgenesis only because our delusions and our ideals spawn systems that insure that degeneration.

The degree to which our natural autonomy can be rationally exercised will be critical in determining the effectiveness of the individual, and ultimately human societies and the species. The functionality of the group represents the cumulative functionality of its individual members.

It is only through the portal of objective rationality that we can hope to implement meaningful changes in our social structures. Without the insights imparted by an orientation to reality, we will have neither the drive nor the understanding to make true corrections.

Humanity has moved beyond innocence. As a species, we now have the knowledge to make corrections. Whether or not we do so depends upon the decisions and activities of individuals. The drive must emanate from individuals. Whether we succeed or fail, we no longer have excuses, nor does nature grant excuses.

One of the greatest problems we have now is that we are doing so well. Our science, technologies and world economic systems have lifted the brutal labor for subsistence from most shoulders and, compared to preindustrialized epochs, provide a rich variety of amenities, goodies and diversions for most of humanity. There is little motivation to ask the hard questions and address our growing uglies. There is, especially, an absence of motivation to examine our own premises and the premises upon which our cultural institutions operate. The more dysfunctional among human societies are incapable of examining their own premise structures, lacking the intellectual tools to do so.

Again, human mental effectiveness depends upon, and has as its foundation, an orientation to factual reality. A measure of just how important such a perspective is can be seen when comparing progress in science and our technologies (were workers are required to adhere to factual reality) to social systems and our various delusional systems of governing.

We are approaching comprehensive effectiveness in science and technology while effectively remaining little more than savages in our social areas, abysmally ignorant and superstitious. The pathology of our delusions will be experienced in terms of their true consequences. This cannot be evaded. No political or religious rhetoric, no proclamation, no belief, no system or institution, can make it be otherwise. Only by allowing objective rationality to develop and spread among the peoples of Earth can we avert the impending degeneration.

As for you, a person self-assured and open enough to examine the contents of this book, congratulations. If you have been tough enough to reach these final pages, you have exposed yourself to a substantial amount of imperfect, but reality-based material, counter to the propaganda and core delusions provided by your culture.

This would indicate that you have a serious drive toward one of two things: finding and accepting the realities or looking for some way to discredit this work. If the former is the case, you have moved far beyond your species' authority-dependent multitudes. You are special and you are needed in this critical period of human transition. It is upon those moved by reason that Earth's remaining life forms depend. It is upon those moved by reason that hope for our species depends, whether this is to be the emergence of a truly intelligent life form or the last hurrah of a deluded and mindless parasite. This ultimate determination will be made by individual members of the species Homo Sapiens, an emerging intelligent life form still struggling within the bonds of its primitive beginnings and resultant institutions, on a small blue planet called Earth.

In the field of physics, there now exists a fully developed, unified system for addressing the entire spectrum of physics phenomena, using the mathematical treatment of a single fundamental physical referent. This system shows, for the first time, the most basic mechanisms of the Cosmos, the functions within the architecture of the primary particles and the fundamental nature of matter. In short, we now understand the fundamental nature of Existence, what it is and how it works, a rational Cosmos that is understandable. The developer and author of the work in physics is a retired engineer from General Electric Company, his name is R. Stewart Hall. Publication of his work is expected before the end of this year and will be announced on our web page in the near future:

As a means of conveying an immediate sense of the nature of factual existence, as displayed by R. Stewart Hall's Analytic MetaPhysics, an alternative approach to physics, I set to verse some of its main points and implications in a rhyme called "IS":

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