It seems I have a rather peculiar perspective on life, one which ignores my relative gifts as compared to other people. You see, I just assumed everyone was like me, as capable as me. So to me, everyone has the ability to tell if someone is lying. But the reality, when I really sit down and think about it is that few others have really developed this ability as much as I have.

So why is this important enough to write a blog entry about and make you read it? Because this skill, which all humans should have, enables me to see through lies, including lies which affect us all, including you, dear reader. What it means is that when you read what I write, you are reading what are the results of my investigations into lies. I means that what I write is what you are not meant to read.

I developed these skills as a necessity. You see, my family bullied me. Everyone in my household when I was growing up were what are called psychopaths; which really just means they aren't actually human beings. Human beings speak, which means verbal language was developed, which required empathy; which means if we are speaking, it's because we are supposed to be empathetic, and if not, we aren't human beings. So, I was raised in a home devoid of human beings and in their place were the same kind of people who run corporations, become politicians, rot in jail, or become serial killers (in point of fact one is rotting in jail as we speak – for murder). And these people don't go through life telling the truth.

So, for me to survive, I had to learn to tell when someone was lying, because lies are what psychopaths use in their set of tools in order to manipulate people. Fortunately for me, where my family lacked empathy, I apparently made up for it. And empathy is absolutely necessary if you are going to try to find out if someone is lying (hint: psychopaths always lie, but I'm glad I found out the hard way, you know?).

I survived and even thrived; though I was unable to achieve all I could as a child genius, one who could have graduated high school in the 6th grade (no kidding! My scores on a standardized test in the 6th grade showed me as having the education of a high school graduate!) And I owe it to these skills, which have helped me far beyond just getting out of “hell” (as I used to call my childhood home in Norwalk, California).

My skills have served me quite well, but of course they have been a curse socially. Even before suffering brain damage which destroyed what social skills I did have, I wasn't exactly Mr. Popular for my skills. As I found out only after years of suffering from loss of social skills: lying is an essential social skill, the single most important actually. Nevermind what this means for what socializing is, we'll deal with that later. The point is, I was shunned socially and as a result, had a lot of time to my self to spend thinking about other things – and uncovering other lies given my other important characteristic: insatiable curiosity.

When you are curious about how things work, and have the skills to see through lies, you tend to be able to see the world in a light that, well, some people don't want you to see it through. I am in fact applying for refuge here in Mexico (as opposed to political asylum, for which I also qualify) in part because of the fact that I was censored as an amateur journalist in my efforts to try to share with my fellow human beings the lies I was able to uncover.

But you aren't reading this to know about my suffering. You are reading this because you want to know what lies I see through. And since that's precisely why I wrote this blog, let's just get down to the meat and make a list of the lies in our world:

1. Society.

Society itself is a lie. And that's the only lie you need to know about, because it's the most important and encompasses all other lies. Society itself forms the basis for all forms of dishonesty precisely because of the form of society we have chosen. Modern society is not natural, nor is it compatible with human beings. It is the source of all problems facing humanity, and all stress facing individual people.

Human beings are empathetic, as I said. We developed verbal communication, which requires empathy; which means that as a species, we developed empathy so that we could then develop language. You can't have one without the other, at least not without problems.

So, how did we come to have a society built on lies?

Simple: the people who designed our society are not human beings.

Human society arguably has it's origins in farming. Mankind, foolishly, decided that rather than be nomadic and travel with our food; that we would instead eat grains and other crops, and that we should live in one place and live off of farming. While presenting certain obvious benefits, this lifestyle is not at all suitable for human beings, least of which because we shouldn't be eating grains, but also because we are a nomadic people for a reason, and trying to change that can only cause problems.

Hence, modern society and it's problems.

This farming lifestyle was seen by some as a means to take advantage of and control others. But true human beings, being empathetic, and thus self-motivated by what we know now as “The Golden Rule” to be human towards other humans, would never see such a possibility; only those who lacked empathy could see themselves taking advantage of and controlling others. Thus, it was psychopaths who created our modern society. Any doubts you have on that can easily be assuaged by reading just the first page of Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations, a tome written by and for psychopaths, and which forms one of the bases for modern Capitalism.

So the whole of modern human society, of human civilization itself, and as a consequence, the very evolution of the human species has been directed by people who are not even themselves human beings.

I guess you have something to think about now, don't you?

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