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THE ORIGIN OF SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION:
The Pathology of Cultural Delusion

By Everett E. Allie
© Copyright 1999, Everett E. Allie. All Rights Reserved.

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1: Tyranny by Delusion

Cultural Delusion
The Media as a Vector of Delusion
Our Inevitable Miasma
Governing Toward Fantasy
Educating Toward Fantasy
The Living Institution
The Group vs the Individual
The Development of Internal Control
Rationality and Survival
Death by Fantasy

Chapter 2: Principles and Premises

The Necessity of Principles
Cultural Systems vs Natural Systems
A Few Principles

Chapter 3: The Nature of Existence

The Cosmos
Relativity
Quantum Mechanics
Measurement
Mathematical Limitations
R. Stewart Hall
Big Bang or Little Bangs
Beliefs to Defend
A Continuum of Endless Change
Water Planets
Life Evolves
Summary

Chapter 4: The Mind

Reasoning
The Brain
Deductive Reasoning
Inductive Reasoning
Rationality vs Rationalization
Reciprocal Cognitive Exclusion
The Conscious Mind
The Subconscious Mind
Memory
Drives
The Subconscious Connection
Programming the Subconscious
Controlling the Mind through Chemistry
Captive Minds

Chapter 5: The Pathology of Belief

The Power of Belief
Bias Toward a Closed System
The Drive for Integrity
Learning
Early Indoctrination
Emotion Driven Behavior
Seeking a Non-Threatening Environment
RCE Defense Mechanisms
A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
Implications
Psychiatry
The Belief/Ignorance Syndrome
The Belief/Ignorance Barrier

Chapter 6: Religion

The True Believer
The Positive Effects of Religion
The Inherently Flawed 'God' Concept
The Care and Propagation of Religion
Arguments in Support of the God Concept
The 'God' Argument Categories
The Authority Argument
The Empirical Argument
The Faith Argument
The Moral Argument
The Pragmatic Argument
The A-Priori Arguments
The Cosmological Argument
The Teleological Argument
The Ontological Argument
The Entropy Argument
Creating our Gods
The Advent of Christianity
Cults
Religion and RCE
Keeping the Faith
Religion and Government

Chapter 7: The Problem of Governing

A Fundamental Fallacy
The Downside of Governing
Crime
Welfare
Healthcare
Environmental Protection
Labor Unions
Consumer Advocacy
Taxation
The Misuse of Law
Government as a Reflection of the Governed
Who's to Blame?
The Authoritarian Fallacy
Internal Control vs Imposed Control
Social Dysffunction and Authoritarian Law

Chapter 8: Crime and Punishment

The Growth of Crime
Basic Premises
The Indicated Role of Government
Failed Rationales
The Dominion of Dependency
Drugs and Alcohol
The Criminalization of Society
Vesting Power in Failed Systems
Capital Punishment
Zero Tolerance
Crime in the Streets
Institutional Shaping of Criminal Behavior
Restoring the Right of Self-Defense
A Proposed Criminal Rehabilitation Program

Chapter 9: American Public Education

Brain Dead
Bending The Twig
Minorities
Garbage In; Garbage Out
Through the Mill: K-12
Textbook Pablum
Teaching Without Knowledge
Programmed Learning
Parochial vs Private Schools: Alternative Delusions
The Failure to Educate
Natural Goals vs Fantasy Goals
The Failure to Discriminate
Accommodating the Fantasies
Coping with Failure
What's a Parent to Do?

Chapter 10: Poisoned Passions: A Note on Sexuality

The Seeds of Distorted Sexuality
The Early Assault on Human Sexuality
Official Distortion
The Mother: Victim and Vector
Religion and Sex
Sex as Motivation
Pornography

Chapter 11: A Species Decision: Alpha or Omega?

A Child's Dream
The Fundamental Pathogen
To Destroy the Disease
Pressures for Change
Danger Areas
The Specter of Overpopulation
Without Excuse
Appendix
A New Physics
IS
Future Editions
A Fundamental Shift in Human Thought

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