The flaw is that they have taken the human element out of it and then, afterwards, say something is wrong or missing.
In essence, people invent a statement or rule and although this is actually a premise, they call it 'truth'. The next step is that they develop a whole world of on top of it.
It happens in religion (theïstic or not), mathematics, statistics, music, politics, in the explanation of societies and economics, physics, investing, the list is long . It cannot be understood without
Don't do to others what you don't want to be done to yourself.
or its variant:
Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself.
BUT .....
A Nigerian banker once confessed to me:
“Oh, but I do apply the golden rule, too, you know.
It reads: He who has the gold, makes the rules.”
If there are no guns involved, most of business and diplomacy becomes more easily to comprehend.
Now, look at these paintings. Do you feel enchanted, stunned, enraged, baffled by them? I bet you don't. But these paintings were absolutely sensational when they were made.
I estimate the tsarina you see left is wearing about half a billion in today's euro's worth of diamonds and pearls. The girl to the right seems caught in the act when she donned the most prized possession of her mistress, a set of pearl earrings.
Pearls were handed down in families for centuries until they lost their value with the arrival of cultivated pearls in 1907. Before that, pearls were more expensive than diamonds.
The British elite Remainers wanted to stay in the EU on the supposition, if not the conviction, that they could mould (AE: mold) the European Union to their liking. The British elite Leavers wanted to leave the EU because they thought changing it to their liking would prove to be impossible. Both the Remainers and the Brexiteers thought they knew better than the Continentals. It is this commonality of rock-solid belief in British superiority that created Brexit.
It is perfectly illustrated by a speech by David Cameron, Prime Minister of Great Britain from May 11, 2010, to July 13, 2016. Remember that David Cameron called the referendum on Brexit which was held on June 23, 2016.
In his speech on November 14th, 2011, at the Lord Mayor’s banquet in London, David Cameron said:
What is truth? Is there an absolute truth? Does truth exist at all?
Why are there different words for truth, reality and actuality?
Whatever you consider the truth, it has a frail health. It can be distorted, twisted, hidden and even blown away in any which way.
In the last couple of years, the question of what truth is has become a pressing one. The consequences of different views on 'truths' have led to tectonic changes in the political landscape all across the Western hemisphere. In 2016, both in the USA and in UK propaganda campaigns were conducted that, like any hard-hitting propaganda campaign, were based on base emotions, false promises, fantasies presented as facts, and one-liners presented as policy based on truth. Upon close inspection, most of it, if not all of it, was nonsense. But who has the time and who wants to pay the effort and hours to inspect the utterances of politicians more closely? The news media? They have been cast aside as 'fake news' and now all promote some political agenda or another of the owners. The social media? They offer a degree of negativity and uninformed trolling like nobody has ever seen in the history of Man. The end result was that about half of the electorate believed the propaganda campaigns. It was like flipping a coin and this time the coin fell twice on heads for the trolls.
When so many people believe something, however outrageous it may be, it becomes a foundation of policy, news channels and education. And therefore one must understand the mechanisms behind how such new 'truths' can become actual truths.
(This is the second publication on the science of mass manipultion. The first contained the sources and history and can be found HERE (click).)
