Joannes Richter

Illusion
and
Disillusion

-2010-
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Contents
1 Thank Heavens for Disillusions?...........................................4
2 The Survival of the Fittest......................................................6
3 Language................................................................................9
4 History..................................................................................11
5 The disillusion of worshipping............................................12
The Bible.......................................................................14
A need for Religion.......................................................14
6 The Disillusion of Religion..................................................16
The creation of “man” ..................................................16
The name Yahweh.........................................................18
The colour codes Red and Blue.....................................18
Disillusion of religious symbolism...............................21
7 Politics..................................................................................22
The disillusion of Politics..............................................23
8 The disillusioning of Banking Business...............................24
The Lehmann limit........................................................24
The disillusion of saving money...................................25
9 The last medicine.................................................................27
The last Medicine..........................................................27
10 Blind faith in Technology..................................................29
11 Summary............................................................................30

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1 Thank Heavens for Disillusions?
Illusion seems to be the vital component in life. As soon as we
are born life will welcome us with our first illusion and on the
deathbed we have to experience an ultimate delusion in which
our dead body catapults our souls into the dark Nirvana beyond
an illusive Paradise.
“Thank Heavens for the Disillusions...”
“Thank Heavens?”, you may ask yourself. “You must be crazy.
I experience my most depressive moments in disillusions...”
“No, you misunderstand the idea. In fact the disillusions
provide us with the main insights, revealing the truth and
enjoying our hearts!”
Unfortunately it is not the revelation of truth but a perpetual
illusion which will permanently enjoy our human hearts. A
constant flow of happiness is to be found in the hearts of the
most innocent and naïve persons, sleepwalking and roaming
the roads of our planet.
In contrast the most depressive experiences are being caused
by a premature revelation of deception. Constant happiness
requires a controlled management of illusion and disillusions.
Any premature disillusion may ruin your day. That's why we
should start our life by deciding to live in constant and
comfortable illusions or to perpetually fight all deceptions by
accepting disillusions as a precious gift. Any other strategies
will fail and end up in a demoralizing dead end street.

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In modern times deceiving your fellow men seems to be
organized in a most professional way. In order to understand
the basic principles we will have to describe how delusion
works.
As soon as you have decided to live a life of illusions it will be
made easy to avoid any disillusion by simply stop thinking.
That's the easiest way to manage your life. But if you decide to
resist and deny a life of illusions you will be forced to
permanently fight the illusions working on you.
It would not be efficient to unmask all those little illusions you
may meet in your daily life. The most important themes
including the mayor illusions are to be found in the main areas
of our life. These are the strategical parameters that control our
life's path.

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2 The Survival of the Fittest
Probably Darwin was the first scientist to reveal the strategy in
which life overcomes nature's general process of decay.
Obviously life is applying a bundle of illusions to manage the
survival of the fittest. In order to be effective there is a simple
law to be fulfilled:
“Illusions must be good enough to avoid an easy disillusion.
In case an illusion is disillusioned it will have to be improved.”
In evolution the reproduction mechanism will produce a large
number of living creatures which may easily be fooled and die
in the battle for survival. The selection mechanism will filter
out the cleverest experts in deceiving their neighbours.
At this point however it must be said that a few fools may be
left to survive. They will be tolerated like the cattle to feed the
delusive experts. Obviously the system needs some slaves to
feed the experts and free them from these boring tasks and let
them concentrate on essentials like deception.
Now what will happen if you experience an illusion?
If you experience the disillusion as a misfortune or a disaster
you are advised to take a deep breath and swallow the mishap.
You may accept the idea of having been cheated by an expert.
Forget it an don't try to take a revenge. This would only
demoralize you in a battle against a superior expert. Any other
investment in crying over spilled milk will only generate
depressive feelings undermining your health. Just forget it and
look up to the sun!

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If however you experience the disillusion as a godsend you
may consider yourself as an exceptional person. In fact the
thesaurus does merely explain the word “disillusion” as a
“disenchanting” and sad fiasco, in worst cases culminating in a
tragedy. Clearly these oversimplified definitions illustrate the
perfectionism of modern illusions.
In contrast experiencing a disillusion as a godsend will allow
you to transform the anger's energy into an euphoric insight
feeling. This sort of experiences however is so seldom it does
not even justify a simple line in the English thesaurus. In
contrast there may be other civilisations (e.g. Zen-Buddhism)
which do refer the word disillusion to insight (in a “satori” as
the key-concept for Zen-Buddhism).
To manage a disillusion we need four basic tools: curiosity,
education, leisure time and the courage of despair.
We need curiosity to initiate suspicion. If we unconditionally
accept anything we would never be able to suspect something
is wrong.
Education is required to understand the mechanism of
illusions. Whoever fails to invest some time for education
already belongs to the happy group of mindless persons who
cannot be deluded at all. There are rumours some governments
developed strategies to allow their citizens a minor amount of
education – just enough to do their jobs, but no more than that.
Limited education is cheaper and simply educated citizens are
easier to be controlled, but in a global world this approach is
quite risky as the simply educated people might easily be
overcome by a better educated competitor.

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Considerable leisure time will be needed to process experiences
in our minds. You may need as much time as the delusive
expert has been investing into successful illusions.
The courage of despair is required whenever you have been
double-crossed again and again by delusions. To overcome
these problems you will have to purify some insight from each
and every disillusion that's hitting you.

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3 Language
English language provides a number of expressions for
delusions and disillusions:
• deception1 – act of deceiving, fact or state of being
deceived; which may suggest cheating or tricking.
• fraud – always implying guilt.
• double-dealing – which usually suggests bad attitude.
• trickery - intended to dupe or fool others.
• disappointment2 - To defeat of expectation or hope.
• disillusion3 – to remove an illusion for others or for
yourself.
We may discern two different feelings in a disillusion. The first
step is a mourning phase in which the promised illusion
suddenly disappears This is the step we usually experience as a
bad feeling, resulting in depressions. The second phase, which
may be delayed for some time is the insight phase following
the mourning period.
The sadness suggested in the linguistic usage of the word
disillusion clearly indicates the impact of language. Although
the word does contain a positive impulse the negative character
prevails. The word disillusion commonly generates an illusion
of sadness where I personally prefer gladness.

1:
from Latin Capio = to capture
2:
from Latin Ad punctum = to the point
3:
from Latin Illudo = to fool (“play”) somebody's mind

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Delusions in verbal expressions belong to the most important
instruments for the delusive experts. Of course a great number
of verbal illusions and delusions may also be found in the
history books and in the Bible.
Wilhelm von Humboldt expressed the goal for history4:
„History is considered to lead us to the realization of
mankind's ideas.”
But what is to be realized if a documented history is full of
delusions? In this case the represented goal must be an illusion!
A number of other disciplines such as philosophy, justice and
religion rely on historical documents, which may have been
deluded. Therefore we will have to be careful in evaluations. It
is this kind of disillusions which have to be overcome in the
course of anybody's lifetime.
Most of us prefer to stick to the illusions, where it is easier to
make a living without any troubles. In our case however we
will fight against these illusions and reveal the core of truth as
far as we may reach...

4:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte

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4 History
Of course history cannot be considered as a scientific discipline
as long as the history books are merely being written by the
victorious side. Unilateral history will lead to historical
delusions from institutes, which have survived as emperors for
millennia.
For centuries history has been written and copied by religious
leaders, who did not really care for the quality of copying, but
rather ensured conformity to the biblical “truth”. This resulted
in illusionary and unproven “facts” to be considered as
historical records.
The quality of these varying historical documents and evolving
historical observers may be expressed by the following
observations by Golo Mann5:
„History will always be characterized by two elements:
the events which have taken place and the observers
who may have seen and interpret the events from their
viewpoints at the given instants of time.
In this process new facts and insights may replace the
obsolete data at any time, but the observer may also
undergo a metamorphose. History is a living creature –
staggering in the light of new experiences and
investigations.”

5:
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geschichte

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5 The disillusion of worshipping
According to professor Richard Dawkins6 religions must be
considered as delusions. Most of his points are well-
documented illustrations for the barbaric methods of
disciplining members by excluding them from society. One of
the victims of these excommunications is the philosopher
Spinoza7, who scientifically investigated religion more deeply
than any other scientist. That's why we should start by
analysing his results.
Baruch de Spinoza believed God exists only philosophically
and that God was abstract and impersonal. He contended that
everything that exists in the Universe is one Reality (substance)
and there is only one set of rules governing the whole of the
reality which surrounds us and of which we are part. Spinoza
viewed God and Nature as two names for the same reality,
namely the single substance8 that is the basis of the universe
and of which all lesser "entities" are actually modes or
modifications, that all things are determined by Nature to exist
and cause effects, and that the complex chain of cause and
effect is only understood in part.
His identification of God with nature was more fully explained
in his posthumously published Ethics. That humans presume
themselves to have free will, he argues, is a result of their
awareness of appetites while being unable to understand the
reasons why they want and act as they do.

6:
especially in his book The God Delusion (2006)
7:
Baruch de Spinoza 1632-1677
8:
meaning "that which stands beneath" rather than "matter"

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 Fig. 1: Baruch Spinoza, ca. 1665

Baruch de Spinoza (1632-1677)

Portrait, ca. 1665 (Painting at the Herzog-August-Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany)
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The consequences of Spinoza's system also envisages a God
that does not rule over the universe by providence, but a God
which itself is the deterministic system of which everything in
nature is a part. Thus, according to this understanding of
Spinoza's system, God would be the natural world and have no
personality.
However, Spinoza also held that everything must necessarily
happen the way that it does. Therefore, humans have no free
will. They believe, however, that their will is free. In his letter
to G. H. Schaller9 he wrote:

"Man is conscious of his own desire, but ignorant of the

causes whereby that desire has been determined."

The Bible
According to Spinoza the biblical scriptures cannot be
considered as free of errors or to literally have been inspired by
God. In a critical study a number of contradictions between
different biblical chapters may be identified.
The Bible is not explaining God's nature or His aim for
mankind, but teaches us obedience and love for God and for
our fellow men. To understand these rules we do not need a
special philosophical or theological qualification.

A need for Religion

The majority of religious people depends on religious delusion
to bear the burden of disillusions in other fields. Too many
disillusions will result in insanity as long as they cannot be
transformed into insight.
9:
Letter 62

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Only a slowly growing insight may be able to prevent the
human mind from going insane.
Spinoza's insight will be able to survive as both thesis and its
antitheses seem to withstand a refutation. In both cases the
need for a church service including sacrifices and prayers may
be irrelevant. Following Spinoza's research only a pantheistic
Divinity seems to be remaining, which may be respected
without too many public celebrations.
Although Spinoza convinced me in the disillusion of a
personal Deity ruling the world I decided to develop my own
disillusion of religion to avoid any hidden delusions in another
author's work.

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6 The Disillusion of Religion
Early versions of Hebrew religion probably applied a fertility
concept in which Yahweh has been married to Ashera10.
Together they were thought to form a married couple, which
may have been considered as a unity, speaking as a singular
person in majestic plural 11.
„Let us make man in our image, after our likeness"
The duality may also refer to Elohim, a plural name of the
Hebrew deity Yahweh.

The creation of “man”

“God created man in his own image. In God’s image he created
him; male and female he created them”12. The first couple
("Adam") had been connected back to back and was to be
separated later. That's how the first human being has been
created according to the legend. In later eras Ashera
disappeared, which transformed Elohim from a married couple
into a male Deity Yahweh.
In order to adapt the creation legend to a male deity the Book
Genesis needed to be rewritten. The first man needed to be
created as an image of a male Deity and Adam's wife Eve had
to be created in a second phase to become his servant.

10:
A history of God: from Abraham to the present, the 4000 year quest for
God von Karen Armstrong - 1993
11:
pluralis maiestatis in Latin
12:
as a couple he created them

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What makes this sequence in an ancient legend so important?
A male priority in creating man as a divine image has been
used for millennia to avoid social equality between men and
women. The female half of society was not allowed to vote or
to even own their own property. The encyclical Rerum
Novarum 13, supplemented by later encyclicals14 (1931), merely
has been addressed to the male members of the Catholic
Church, ignoring the female half of this religious community.
In matrimony women used to be considered as children. By
now West-European states largely may have corrected this
inequality, but there remains an imbalance inherited from the
Bible.
On the other hand there is a great number of Hebrew Rabbis,
who document an early balanced creation legend for man and
woman:
• In explaining the various views concerning Eve's
creation, the Pharisees taught15 that Adam was created
as a man-woman (androgynous), explaining the Bible-
quote (Gen. i. 27) as "male and female" instead of "man
and woman," and that the separation of the sexes arose
from the subsequent operation upon Adam's body, as
related in the Scripture.
• Jeremiah ben Eleazar16, a Palestinian scholar of the 2nd
century, inferred that Adam was created with two faces,
one of a man and one of a woman, and that God
afterwards cleft them asunder.

13:
Translation: Of New Things issued by Pope Leo XIII on May 15, 1891
14:
in particular Pius XI's Quadragesimo Anno
15:
From the Jewish Encyclopedia: Adam Kadmon ( Er. 18a, Gen. R. viii.)
16:
Info from the website: Jewish Encyclopedia

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 • “God created the human being, being both male and
female, which was subsequently divided into two
beings”17.
• The Zohar is widely considered the most important
work of Kabbala or Jewish mysticism and describes the
Tetragrammaton's (IHVH) androgynous symbolism in
detail. The Zohar first appeared in Spain in the 13th
century, and was published by a Jewish writer named
Moses de Leon.

The name Yahweh

The name Yahweh has been preserved unchanged. In this name
the androgynous structure survives in the letter combination
IU, which may be identified by interpreting the Matres
Lectionis18. The symbolic letters IU may also be identified in
Indoeuropean divine names such as Jupiter, Zeus, etc. which
correlates these deities with Yahweh19. The name IHVH has
been recorded 850 BC in a 34-lined inscription at the Mesha-
stele.

The colour codes Red and Blue

One of the illusions left from deluded symbolism is the idea of
the colours red and blue as mere decorations or as simple
symbols for the red blood and the blue sky. Studying the Book
Exodus we will find these colour combinations 25 times as
divine commands for the Covenant tent and Solomon's temple.

17:
Genesis by Rashi (1040-1105) and Rashbam (1085-1174)
18:
Latin: “Mothers of Reading”, see Matres Lectionis
19:
See the documentation in: The Sky-God Dyæus

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Therefore these symbols red and blue certainly have been
applied for basic symbolism, which has also been encoded in
the letters IU in the name Yahweh.
In later eras red and blue have been prescribed for icons, for
paintings and in imperial clothes. An old scripture, which has
been preserved from my elementary school, documents the red
and blue illustrations20 for Adam and Eve, which have been
prescribed by a catholic priest in 1954. This document
illustrates the vivid existence of the red & blue symbolism in
1954.

Fig. 2: Adam (in red) and Eve (in blue)

20:
see the documentation in Religionsunterricht 1954 (in Dutch language)

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 Fig. 3: Adam and Eve after the Fall of Man (in Purple)

As soon as Muhammad founded the religion of Islam he chose

another colour (Green) to identify the boundaries between
Christianity and Hebrew religions, which traditionally had been
using the symbols red, blue and purple.

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Disillusion of religious symbolism
Most of the remaining symbols are being overseen or
misinterpreted. A disillusion of these misinterpreted symbols
may probably remove the delusion and restore the insight. The
idea of a common religious core IU, which has been preserved
in the Hebrew and Indoeuropean religions may prove that a
global, common Deity may have existed. Disillusions will
reveal the symbolism we have in common.
In the following chapters we will proceed to apply disillusions
to understand a great number of delusions. Delusions will be
found in any niche of society and from these examples we will
learn to accept that illusions are a common element in society.

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7 Politics
Illusions belong to the most important tools for all politicians,
ranging from democracy to despotism. Most politicians do not
even need to invent illusions, as the voters are too eager to feed
them with their own illusions. After a number of years most
voters however loose their interest and do not even invest the
trouble of filling a ballot card.
Each political system may easily be undermined by client
politics in which wealthy “clients” are willing to “donate” for
benevolent laws. Politicians and voters prefer to react
helplessly, but maybe a disillusion helps to at least understand
how it works.
According to Gustavus Myers' study21 a vast majority of
American fortunes must have been based on blackmail and
corruption. A small amount of the stolen money used to be
“invested” to delude the population. Generally the rest of the
capital was to be dissipated in luxury for the offspring.
However there is no good reason to guess whether the
European fortunes may have used other methods to gather their
fortunes.
In earlier eras a government merely needed an army of soldiers
with some sharp swords to convince people to obey the laws.
Most of these soldiers have been forced to join the army by
some form of shanghaiing22, which also had been practised in
kidnapping sailors.

21:
History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers (1909),
completely based on law protocols
22:
Shanghaiing refers to the practice of conscripting men as sailors by
coercive techniques such as trickery, intimidation, or violence.

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In contrast modern politics rely on illusions, which largely rely
on language, history and religion.

The disillusion of Politics

Strictly spoken donations, corruption and blackmail tend to
transform any form of democracy into plutocracy, in which the
donation level controls political activities. Inasmuch money
allows you to buy any aristocratic title plutocracy and
aristocracy must be considered as equivalent to democracy. In
effect these system may as well be considered identical.
In order to stop the corruption in politics you may choose a
left-winged party, but this will only force the capital to leave
your country and invite poverty to settle down.
Now at this point there is only one illusion left to be
disillusioned. How are we going to save democracy?
To save democracy the voters are invited to gather a larger
amount of donations than the richest client. Basically the larger
amount of donations will always be able to control politics.
Yes, these disillusions are harsh words, but the insight may
help you to generate enough courage to turn your attention to
the next chapter disillusioning the banking business...

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8 The disillusioning of Banking Business
In 2010 the Leprosy Centre23 at City of London expects
business as usual. After pumping zillions of Dollars into the
ramshackle finance business the global players are prepared to
start a new run for the rest of it. A total amount of 1,6 trillion
Euros seems to have been dumped into the system to save the
illusion of saving global economics.
Right now the interest on savings deposits is rather low, but
debit interests are already surging and the public finances are
disordered for the next decades. The bankers have proven to be
completely incapable, but there are no alternatives...

The Lehmann limit

Having survived the crisis the remaining bankers are aware that
a bank must overcome a minimal limit to reach the sacrosanct
status. The bottom line for inviolability may be considered as
the Lehmann Limit to honour the catastrophic institute, which
must have missed the limit by an eyelash.
A new banker generation is puzzling how to surpass the
Lehmann limit. From this limit onward any fool may easily be
able to gamble with public money and to be sure to have
governmental protection in trading a new generation of credit
derivates. Anyway the year 2010 will certainly generate new
maxima for the premium bonuses. This is going to be a really
rich year!

23:
The „Leprosy Centre“ in the City of London is a square mile full of
banking business, earning 9% of the British Gross National Product/GNP
respectively 13,9% of all British Earnings.

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The disillusion of saving money
Money and bankers are the mother-of-all illusions.
Traditionally saved money is considered to be a safe deposit
for the senior and aged people. Today this idea must be
considered as an illusion. Saved money is merely a gambling
tool for the new banker generation.
As long as both investors and politicians are unaware what is
going on in the capital market there is no good reason for
bankers to waist time for a solid education. A good reputation
may help to find a banking job, but previous minor convictions
may be acceptable in most cases.
Generally depositors are so naïve they do not even know how
to calculate interests or the effects of inflation. Most of them
are completely unaware of the specific characters of shares and
bonds.
In order to calculate the capital which is being prepared for
destruction a simple rule of thumb may be applied. In general
the elder generations may have saved two or three annual
incomes for their pensioning. This amount may be estimated to
reach a maximum of 10% of a lifetime revenue. In the course
of later life this provision for old age will be consumed. Of
course this provision is expected to be protected by the laws.
The last thing on my mind would be to leave this savings to
any of those investment bankers. Bankers are merely interested
in the money...
The mechanisms manipulating our savings must be considered
as illusions. However in an ageing society the amount of these
savings is surging to limits at which politicians and people
suddenly feel themselves at the mercy of investment bankers.

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In fact the first banking crisis of 2008 is merely a prelude to a
planned series of impending blackmails to society, which will
be concatenated until society finally collapses.
According to evolution theory most natural parasites may have
evolved up to the level to eat so much as to let their host
survive the parasitism, but this strategy requires a clever
parasite and there is only little hope this insight is to come in
time...
Financial dependencies between politicians and bankers inhibit
any sound regulations. Politicians need flourishing economics
as bad as an addict depends on the needle. A rehab might help,
but where is the rehab-institute for this kind of drug addiction?
It will have to be planned first.
Right now we witness a large scale disillusion. Politicians feel
helpless and erect Potemkin24 villages which are merely
waiting to be disillusioned. Maybe we should be looking for a
new and last medicine to overcome the depressive disillusions
reaching us...

24:
Potemkin villages were purportedly fake settlements erected at the
direction of Russian minister Grigory Potyomkin to fool Empress Catherine
II during her visit to Crimea in 1787. According to this story, Potyomkin,
who led the Crimean military campaign, had hollow facades of villages
constructed along the desolate banks of the Dnieper River in order to
impress the monarch and her travel party with the value of her new
conquests, thus enhancing his standing in the empress' eyes.

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9 The last medicine
Right now the costs for medical care are surging into the sky.
Of course nobody is seriously trying to stop or even investigate
the reason for this escalation. As usual the client politics will
take care of the donations to proceed business as usual.
Each decade the number of brand new medicines is being
halved. The era of new medicaments like antibiotics, blood
pressure regulators, statins, antidepressants, chemotherapy,
tranquillizer and contraceptives is over. We are ready to
overcome aids, hart attacks, malaria and any number of other
diseases.
On the other hand the pharmaceutical industry demands a
maximal amount of money for their service. A large team of
researchers and staff is waiting to be paid from pharmaceutics.
Modern medicines cost as much as an annual middle class car
for each patient: that is a new car for each year for a small box
of medicines!
The development for new medicines costs approximately one
billion Euros, which will have to be paid back within a few
years. As long as the staff in pharmaceutical industry cannot be
reduced in parallel to the declining pharmaceutics market the
costs for pharmaceutics will expand up to explosive levels.

The last Medicine

In 1997 forty brand new pharmaceutics have been introduced
to the market. Ten years later the number had declined to
seventeen. If we extrapolate the numbers we may expect one or
two innovative medicines annually. The last medicine will
costs us a complete national budget.

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That's what happens if we expand budgets regardless of costs.
Having disillusioned the pharmaceutical industry we may
investigate the technological wonders to help us in our struggle
for life. After all technology helped us to invent the
benedictory wheel and the dividend spending car industry...

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10 Blind faith in Technology
The blind faith in risky technology culminated in nuclear
technology. These hazards had been well known before
Chernobyl, but the disillusion had to wait for the explosion.
Right now the memorization of the victims seems to decay and
like the return of nature at the hillsides of an erupted volcano
the new victims are already settling near the disposal centres
for radioactive waste and reactors.
By now the nuclear power lobby has reached the phase of
advertising a green pasture with happy cows as an illusion of
safety in operations and disposal industry. Disillusions at
damages and leaking disposal storages are being ignored by
outsourcing the risks. Costly damages are being shuffled off to
the public cash boxes. The dividends have been reserved for
the shareholders.
Irresponsibility seems to be the keyword. The crises in
banking, in retirement benefits, in global warming and other
areas are so overwhelming we cannot expect people to consider
any future nuclear crisis as a serious problem. On the other
hand past catastrophes are a God's Act, which need to be
repaired anyway.

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11 Summary
Delusions and illusions belong to the saddest sides of our lives,
but we are lucky to have the associated remedy of disillusion at
our disposal...
Yes, disillusion isn't bad as it provides us with ample insight,
revealing the truth, which should enjoy our hearts!
A lifelong happiness must be considered as Maya – the Indian
version of illusions. But whoever strives to free himself from
Maya will have to struggle in disillusioning his environment.
He will need to disillusion his religion, to be followed by
justice and politics, his banking plans and energy sources,
etcetera. The lifetime's building needs to be erected anew. Not
a stone is going to be left standing.
Now man and woman seem to have equal rights if we
reconstitute the ancient idea of an androgynous deity. We may
reinstall and accept the idea of a donation-controlled
democracy, which may as well be named plutocracy or
aristocracy. In order to call it democracy we may guarantee a
public donation which is chosen somewhat larger than the
largest client group's donation. But these donations may as well
disappear like a small grain of mustard seed in the next wave
of investment collapses...
At this time confidence in nuclear technology has been
disillusioned for good, but compared to the other crises another
future nuclear calamity cannot scare average citizen.

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Yes the Indian wise men are right. Pure happiness is to be
found in a gently, gently deluding Maya. I consider
disillusioning lethargic25 fellow men as a too arduous job. You
will all be forgiven as soon as I reach the borders of the river
Lethe26 myself.
For this reason the word disillusion is an illusion in itself. As
anything in life it cannot keep its promises. Life is an illusion,
which cannot be disillusioned completely.

Period!

25:
A state of apathy with lack of emotion or interest.
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In Greek mythology, Lethe was one of the five rivers of Hades. Lethe
flowed around the cave of Hypnos and through the Underworld, where all
those who drank from it experienced complete forgetfulness.
Lethe is related to the Greek word for "truth", aletheia (αλήθεια), meaning
"un-forgetfulness" or "un-concealment".

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