Why is your entire Life an elaborate lie ?

Your entire life is a lie. It’s a bold statement, made before and not done justice. Let’s examine exactly why virtually everything in your life is a lie.

When you were born, your parents did what all responsible parents do. No doubt they were overjoyed at your arrival, and they knew life would be better now that you had arrived. They wanted to protect you and they wanted to make sure you would be looked after once they were gone, so they made sure your birth was registered by the local registrar.

Most likely this action was never once thought of as an obligation, but rather a necessity to set you up with the best possible chance of a safe, healthy, assured life. The state would be there to provide you with the help should you need it, the NHS would be there to care for you, and all the other benefits that would flow from the existence of your birth certificate. So off they went, and before long they would receive something looking very much like this:

Few people would argue with the idea that, as it is the first document to ‘officially’ exist about you, the birth certificate must be a bloody important document – the foundation of your identity. All documents which subsequently bear your name logically have to stem from the first that was created, right? Wrong. The birth certificate is in fact nothing to do with you. It is not admissible even as evidence of your own identity. Why is this? Well firstly it is stated quite clearly on the bottom of your own birth certificate. Go and check for yourself.

Secondly, as the document clearly states and is so often missed, it is copyright of the crown. 
The significance of these two points can be easily passed over, and obviously has been by pretty much everyone as it just seems like getting your child registered is the ‘thing to do’. As you will now see, the birth certificate is actually the gateway to the attachment of all future debts which will certainly be accrued over the life time of the registrant.

So what does this mean ? Well, as the title suggests, quite a lot. Every bill, every license, every account, EVERYTHING which you believed was meant for you was actually never meant for you. It can't have been. Because if it was yours then the foundational document that does carry "your" name will not actively refute the fact.

What it does do is create a legal ball and chain which will be dragged throughout your life as a permanent, though voluntary, attachment of the mind.

So, Why is it so hard to believe that everything in life is a lie?

Why do we walk around pretending like the whole world is telling us the truth when most of the time, we won’t even tell ourselves the truth.

We accept lies every day. From the world, from the government, from the media, from our friends, from our family and mostly, from ourselves.

We tell ourselves that we will get-to-it-tomorrow, or maybe we’ll send that email later, let me just mark it as un-read real quick.

Didn't we all hear these excuses, “This is the last cigarette. I promise…” or “I haven’t had that many drinks, I’m good to drive.” Then there is my favorite, “Me? No, I never watch porn, Ever!!”

The truth is that we lie to ourselves every day. Shit, half of our memories are lies. Our brains are notoriously inefficient at creating accurate records of our life experiences. Sometimes we just fill in the blanks for ourselves.

Over time our imagination can even shift our reality. We start interjecting our own opinions and begin to mold our own memories while re-writing the past. Eventually our new version just becomes the truth.

We lie to ourselves about past lovers and romanticize the experiences. We dwell on that someone we just broke up with, someone we couldn't live with, yet somehow, can’t let go.

I’m not saying it’s right to lie, and I’m not saying it’s necessarily always wrong, I’m simply saying that it is. It’s hard wired into each of our brains and it is something we all do. No matter how much you want to pretend not to.

We don’t need to be taught how to lie, we just do it. We've known how to lie ever since the first time we fucked up.

Life is made up of these little lies. Things that you get to discover as you go. We love lies, fairy tales and falsehoods. We all pass them on, like a bad plague, from generation to generation.

We allow ourselves to be shackled by lies. Controlled by the system in which we live. For god’s sake, our entire monetary system is a complete lie. Digital ledgers of ones and zeros that for some reason we continue to believe in.

The problem with lies is that they become complicated. One day you look back and you’ve wasted your youth, all of a sudden you don’t know which part of your life is a lie and which part is truth.

We live in a hand spun symphony of story telling and infinite susceptibility.

The world was flat, and then it wasn’t.

The sun revolved around the earth, and then it didn’t.

We knew each of those things to be true for hundreds of years and yet at the time, many still believed otherwise.

Like many that have come before us, we have allowed lies to tear through our entire society like a slow rust. Slowly eating through all of the structural components and finally out onto the surface. Leaving the entire structure weak and ready for a complete collapse.

Our whole lives have been lies. We have been played. We are still being played. Pawns in a game handed down by the system.

Sometimes those distortions of reality lead to a good thing. A well intentioned shift in thought, based on understanding and new information can lead to great innovation, but sometimes it gets out of control.

Sometimes that distorted reality can bring down an entire society.

Sometimes the house of cards collapses and brings every one else crashing down with it. You’d be believing another lie if you thought it was not happening again. Right now.

And that right there, is nothing but the cold hard truth.