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Joannes Richter

Illusionand

Disillusion

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Contents1 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.......................................................146 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..............................................238 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 weare 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 roamingthe 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 byaccepting 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 inwhich 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 largenumber 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 letthem 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 atragedy. 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 illusionof sadness where I personally prefer gladness.

1: from Latin Capio = to capture2: from Latin Ad punctum = to the point3: 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 andreligion 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 asfar 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 disciplineas 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 resultedin 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 observerswho 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 beconsidered 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 f ree will, he argues, is a result of their

awareness of appetites while being unable to understand thereasons why they want and act as they do.

6:especially in his book The God Delusion (2006)7: Baruch de Spinoza 1632-16778:meaning "that which stands beneath" rather than "matter"

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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. Schaller 9 he wrote:

"Man is conscious of his own desire, but ignorant of thecauses 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 betweendifferent 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 ReligionThe 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 fertilityconcept 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 Asheradisappeared, which transformed Elohim from a married coupleinto 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 theBible.

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 Eleazar 16, 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 Godafterwards 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 importantwork 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 YahwehThe 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 asdivine 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 Lectionis19: 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.

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

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



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 Myer s' 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 inkidnapping sailors.

21:History of the Great American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers (1909),

completely based on law protocols22: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 expectsbusiness 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 aredisordered 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 asthe 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 newmaxima 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 depositfor 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 generalthe 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 toovercome 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-controlleddemocracy, 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 beendisillusioned 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.26: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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