From the perspective of the natural world, all culture is a lie that humans tell themselves in order to create something that doesn't exist. We conjure these t

From the perspective of the natural world, all culture is a lie that humans tell themselves in order to create something that doesn't exist. We conjure these things into existence by telling ourselves - and hurting those who don't agree - that the thing is real, even if it isn't. >Just because it is not the unified worldview as everyone has doesn't make it false. This is demonstrably incorrect: Just ask a Russian to explain American foreign policy. More Americans than Russians believing such lies do not make them true - they just add the force of human attention to the fallacy, which helps it persist in light of other forces of human attention .. >arbitrary Lies are arbitrarily persisted as a result of the _decisions_ of human beings, which don't have any force, weight or energy other than what we say they have, and that force, weight and energy only persists for as long as we, humans, say it shall - and not a moment longer! "Gold is real. Europe is not." Shelley was onto something ... the fiction of Ozymandias is one lie from which we all will learn, whether we like it or not.