The Truth About Reality

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We know very little about truth and reality. We know we are alive and we know we will eventually die. But, no one knows what life is. No one knows what death is. We know we are conscious but we don’t know what consciousness is. Is life itself consciousness or is consciousness independent of life and present in or around living things? No one can answer these questions, not a soul. Life is often said to be a gift and a privilege but is that so? Clearly it is not a choice. It may be a wonderful thing but as far as we can tell no one or anything ever volunteered to be alive.

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What about truth? The term truth is used constantly but but there is very little that can be authoritatively deemed as true. We can’t help but notice an ongoing process in the world. Basically all animals including humans either kill and consume other animals in order to survive. or they they die. Out of this comes system based on of dominance and subservience. Survival is only possible if humans as a species come out ahead in this game of dominance and subservience.

Does being part of that seem appealing? Human beings would rather explain it all in a different light or simply not think about these basic questions. Add to all of that an eternal blanket uncertainty about everything else we have in our lives. We are born into this system and it is the way that it is whether we like it or not or even choose not to think about it.

This is reality and lifetimes are spent running from these, questions or pretending there are no questions. The escape from reality begins early. People run from reality and create a distance from it but eventually reality catches them. Reality eventually imposes itself on every human being. The alternative is to stop running and turn around and stare reality in the face.

Some unhappiness always occurs once that decision is made. The whole of reality is not something we can grasp. We can accurately observe the system of dominance and subservience that governs our existence. Nature provides a gift of immediate accurate discernment but it is only available to the small number of people who view the world without having the handicap of looking through the prism of fantasy. When the mind is fantasy free the real reason for the occurrence of various events and behaviors becomes perfectly clear.

It becomes very clear that in politics and life in the aggregate in general, that self interest is the only relevant incentive of each and all who are involved. Citizens fantasize that their elected leaders are tirelessly working on their behalf because citizens are special. Of, course this is not true. Elected leaders are in office in order to get the most out of the job for themselves as is possible. Nature does not provide an incentive to serve so it is foolish to assume that it is present. Really awful conditions develop because citizens get this backwards.

The truth is a hard sell. Fantasy Free Economics gains readers one at a time. Major search engines simply do not list blogs which disagree with their political agenda. As long as folks share the link to this blog and others speaking out against the grain, the truth will at least trickle into the public consciousness.

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James Quillian independent scholar,free market economist,and teacher of natural law. Who is James Quillian? Certainly I am nobody special, Just a tireless academic and deep thinker. Besides that, I have broken the code with respect to economics and political science. Credentials? Nothing you would be impressed with. I am not a household name. It is hard to become famous writing that virtually no one in the country is genuinely not in touch with reality. But, if I did not do that, there would be no point in my broking the broken the code. If you read the blog, it is easy to see that there are just a few charts, no math and no quantitative analysis. That is not by accident. Given what I know, those items are completely useless. I do turn out to be highly adept at applying natural law. Natural law has predominance over any principles the social science comes up. By virtue of understanding natural law, I can debunk, in just a few sentences , any theory that calls for intervention by a government. My taking the time to understand the ins and outs of Keynes General Theory is about like expecting a chemistry student to completely grasp all that the alchemists of the middle ages thought they understood in efforts to turn base metals into goal. Keynesian theory clearly calls for complete objectivity. Government can only make political decisions. Keynesian techniques call for economic decisions. So, why go any further with that? Fantasy Free Economics is in a sense a lot like technical analysis. Technical analysis began with the premise that it was impossible to gain enough information studying fundamentals to gain a trading advantage. Study the behavior of investors instead. Unlike technical analysis, I don't use technical charts. What I understand are the incentives of different people and entities active in the economics arena. For example, there is no such thing as an incentive to serve with life in the aggregate. In the aggregate, only self interest applies. It is routinely assumed otherwise. That is highly unappealing. But, I am sorry. That is the way it is. I can accept that because I am genuinely in touch with reality. Step one in using Fantasy Free Economics is for me to understand just how little I really know. A highly credentialed economist may know 100 times what I do based on the standard dogma. Compare the knowledge each of us has compared to all there is to know and we both look like we know nothing at all. There is always more than we don't know than what we do know. I am humble enough to present myself on that basis. Why? That is the way it is. I am not bad at math. I have taught math. What I understand is when to use it and when to rely on something else. Math is useless in natural law so I don't use it. While others look at numbers, I am busy understanding the forces in nature that makes their numbers what they are. That gives me a clear advantage.

One thought on “The Truth About Reality

  1. Andrew

    “No one can answer these questions, not a soul.“
    Actually, you are wrong… quite wrong.
    God is infinite conscious energy, with capabilities far beyond our comprehension, and indeed independent of life, yes, present in and around all living things.

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