Europe doesn't exist anywhere in the world except in the fallacious minds of human beings. Gold exists. The sun exists. Gravity exists. Elephants exist. Eu

Europe doesn't exist anywhere in the world except in the fallacious minds of human beings. Gold exists. The sun exists. Gravity exists. Elephants exist. Europe does not. We cannot conjure up gold just by saying "gold shall exist!" - we can, however, lie to ourselves and say "Europe exists!", and - as long as the human mind is around to perpetuate it, this lie will persist. Gravity doesn't need the human mind to making it work. Neither does fission. These things exist in the universe whether humans like it or not. The moment humans are unable to perpetuate the fallacy of "Europe", it ceases to exist entirely. >Its not a lie to give something a name. Yes actually, it is. You are not your name. Your name persists only as long as others help you make it persist. This is not true of the ground under your feet or the air you breathe or water you need to survive. America is a fiction that only persists for as long as there are human beings around to say "that fiction exists and we shall refer to it as America and in so doing, make this thing that doesn't exist, a reality which persists - but only for as long as we state it does". And therein lies Chomskys' dilemma: he cannot tell his audience that one culture is less of a lie than another, because: they are all lies. They don't really exist, except as human constructs - and these are arbitrary, requiring a decision - an ability which we humans, by all reading of the natural laws of the universe, shouldn't really have...