One relatively local variable that doesn't get much consideration in our scientific-materialism-fetishizing culture is the dramatic depletion of chi/energy/life force that inevitably occurs from voluntarily surrendering one's allegiance over to easily disprovable hypocrisies. In other words, the extreme emotional stress burden that lying to oneself inflicts. Given that we just lived through a globe-spanning pandemic of deceitful artifice, much celebrated by its own victims, the current siphoning away of life force could turn out to be much more dramatic than what we're used to.
Anyone's likelihood of succumbing to the addictive allure of that sanctimoniously insincere habit will tend to increase along with overexposure to the various craved goodies which that allegiance promises. Thus, living proximal to political and economic power hubs, whose celebrity classes competitively flaunt their imbalanced lifestyles, puts one at greater risk of becoming ill from lying to oneself. Of course, there are those people who have sufficient strength of character to dwell right in the belly of the beast without ever succumbing, but on average those regions will drain considerable life force/integrity from their residents. Some places just make you sick.
Today, living within the electromagnetic radiation web we've saturated our atmosphere with, overexposure to idiotic hypocrisies, fealty demands, and popular lies is available on tap in even the remotest of hinterlands. Yippee, we can now make ourselves sick through pious duplicity just about anywhere on earth!
Not that humanity would ever be able to come to any agreement on what lying to oneself might actually entail. Should we ever do so, lying to oneself would probably promptly turn into its own opposite, just to keep us on our toes. Which does make me wonder whether there might be some god of lying to oneself, surely one of the many dread handmaidens of Karma, keeping her from ever becoming overly bored with her assigned role in the universe.
Fortunately, our own bodies/chi/immune systems seem to have absolutely no trouble figuring out whenever we lie to ourselves. Then they can promptly deliver any necessary depletion and illness, so that we might learn the error of our ways and begin practicing greater honesty with ourselves. Perhaps deceiving ourselves about our fanciful fanatic blind faith in pharmaceutical companies, 3-letter agencies, and overpaid bureaucrats in labcoats simply requires an unusually large dose of corrective depletion and illness, in order to redirect those who survive back to a path of healthy honesty.
Re: Population Immunity
Anyone's likelihood of succumbing to the addictive allure of that sanctimoniously insincere habit will tend to increase along with overexposure to the various craved goodies which that allegiance promises. Thus, living proximal to political and economic power hubs, whose celebrity classes competitively flaunt their imbalanced lifestyles, puts one at greater risk of becoming ill from lying to oneself. Of course, there are those people who have sufficient strength of character to dwell right in the belly of the beast without ever succumbing, but on average those regions will drain considerable life force/integrity from their residents. Some places just make you sick.
Today, living within the electromagnetic radiation web we've saturated our atmosphere with, overexposure to idiotic hypocrisies, fealty demands, and popular lies is available on tap in even the remotest of hinterlands. Yippee, we can now make ourselves sick through pious duplicity just about anywhere on earth!
Not that humanity would ever be able to come to any agreement on what lying to oneself might actually entail. Should we ever do so, lying to oneself would probably promptly turn into its own opposite, just to keep us on our toes. Which does make me wonder whether there might be some god of lying to oneself, surely one of the many dread handmaidens of Karma, keeping her from ever becoming overly bored with her assigned role in the universe.
Fortunately, our own bodies/chi/immune systems seem to have absolutely no trouble figuring out whenever we lie to ourselves. Then they can promptly deliver any necessary depletion and illness, so that we might learn the error of our ways and begin practicing greater honesty with ourselves. Perhaps deceiving ourselves about our fanciful fanatic blind faith in pharmaceutical companies, 3-letter agencies, and overpaid bureaucrats in labcoats simply requires an unusually large dose of corrective depletion and illness, in order to redirect those who survive back to a path of healthy honesty.
— Christophe