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The Origin of Social Dysfunction:

The pathology of Cultural Delusion

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Everett E. AllieSpeciesUp, Inc.

The Origin of Social Dysfunction:

The Pathology of Cultural Delusion

2000 Edition

Universal PublishersUSA • 2000

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The Origin of Social Dysfunction: The Pathology of Cultural Delusion

Copyright © 2000 by Everett E. Allie . All rights reserved. No part of this publication, in whole or in part, may bereproduced without written approval from the author or hisassigns. For educational purposes, this book may bereproduced in its entirety, unaltered in content, on a not forprofit basis.

This publication is directed toward providing factualinformation in regard to the subject matter covered, in termsof best current evidence.

Universal Publishers / uPUBLISH.comUSA • 2000

ISBN: 1-58112-723-5

www.upublish.com/books/allie.htm

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For Carrie, Stephen and Amber

And the rest of Earth's Children,

That they may understand,

And move to dissolve the conceptual pathogens

That poison their lives and their institutions.

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I would think the unthinkable

and speak the unspeakable,

For there can be no social progress

Without stepping beyond

the bounds and imperatives of culture.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword xiii

Chapter 1 The Human Condition 1

Chapter 2 Tyranny by Delusion 19

Cultural Delusion 20The Media as a Vector of Delusion 32Our Inevitable Dilemma 37Governing Toward Fantasy 38Educating Toward Fantasy 40The Living Institution 43The Group vs the Individual 45The Development of Internal Control 49Rationality and Survival 51Death by Fantasy 53

Chapter 3 Principles and Premises 55

Ignoring Nature’s Principles 56The Necessity of Principles 57Culture Based vs Reality Based 62A Few Principles 67

Chapter 4 The Nature of Existence 77

The Cosmos 78Relativity 90Quantum Mechanics 93

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Measurement 93Mathematical Limitations 95R. Stewart Hall 96Big Bang or Little Bangs 117Beliefs to Defend 118A Continuum of Endless Change 119Life Evolves 121Summary 124

Chapter 5 The Mind 127

Reasoning 128The Brain 131Deductive Reasoning 135Inductive Reasoning 137Rationality vs Rationalization 142Reciprocal Cognitive Exclusion 146The Conscious Mind 148The Subconscious Mind 150Memory 153Drives 153The Subconscious Connection 155Programming the Subconscious 157Controlling the Mind through Chemistry 159Captive Minds 159

Chapter 6 The Pathology of Belief 163

The Power of Belief 164Hypnosis 166Bias Toward a Closed System 175The Drive for Integrity 178Learning 185

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Early Indoctrination 188Emotion Driven Behavior 190Seeking a Non-Threatening Environment 191RCE Defense Mechanisms 192A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing 194Implications 195Psychiatry 197The Belief/Ignorance Syndrome 199The Belief/Ignorance Barrier 200

Chapter 7 Religion 203

The True Believer 204The Positive Effects of Religion 205The Inherently Flawed 'God' Concept 211The Care and Propagation of Religion 213Arguments in Support of the God Concept 215The 'God' Argument Categories 215The Authority Argument 216The Empirical Argument 217The Faith Argument 217The Moral Argument 218The Pragmatic Argument 218The A-Priori Arguments 219

The Cosmological Argument 219The Teleological Argument 220The Ontological Argument 222The Entropy Argument 222

Creating our Gods 223The Advent of Christianity 225Cults 232Religion and RCE 232Keeping the Faith 233Religion and Government 236

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Chapter 8 The Problem of Governing 237

A Fundamental Fallacy of Governing 238Government by the Rule of Law 249Crime 258Welfare 260Healthcare 261Environmental Protection 262Labor Unions 263Consumer Advocacy 264Taxation 267Teaching Dysfunction 268Law and Authoritarianism 270Government as a Reflection of the Governed 277Who's to Blame? 281The Authoritarian Fallacy, A Summary 286Internal Control vs Imposed Control 297Social Dysfunction and Authoritarian Law 298

Chapter 9 Crime and Punishment 301

The Growth of Crime 302Basic Premises 303The Indicated Role of Government 304Failed Rationales 305The Dominion of Dependency 308Drugs and Alcohol 310The Criminalization of Society 314Vesting Power in Failed Systems 316Capital Punishment 319Zero Tolerance 328Crime in the Streets 331Institutional Shaping of Criminal Behavior 332

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The Lost Ability to Defend 333A Proposed Criminal Rehabilitation Program 337

Chapter 10 American Public Education 347 Brain Dead 348Bending The Twig 350Minorities 356Garbage In; Garbage Out 357Through the Mill: K-12 357Textbook Censure 361Teaching Without Knowledge 362Programmed Learning 363Parochial vs Private Schools: Alternative 364The Failure to Educate 365Rational Goals vs Ideals 368The Failure to Discriminate 370Accommodating the Fantasies 373Coping with Failure 375What's a Parent to Do? 376A Qualified Teacher 378

Chapter 11 Poisoned Passions 379

The Seeds of Distorted Sexuality 380The Early Assault on Human Sexuality 384Official Distortion 390The Mother: Victim and Vector 398Religion and Sex 400Sex as Motivation 403Pornography 404

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Chapter 12 A Species Decision 407

A Child's Dream 408The Fundamental Pathogen 409To Destroy the Disease 414Pressures for Change 416The Specter of Overpopulation 419Without Excuse 421

Appendix 425

A New Physics 426IS 427Bibliography 430An Invitation 431A Paradigm Shift in Human Thought 432Valid and Invalid Governing 433

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FOREWORD

Homo sapiens is an intelligent life form coming of age,that is, in terms of science and technology. However, this hasbeen accomplished through the cumulative intellect of but asmall fraction of its numbers. The vast majority still cling toprimitive beliefs and are manipulated in ignorance andsuperstition by primitive systems of control that,fundamentally, have changed little over the course of humanhistory.

These systems of control successfully circumvent anypopular movement toward the correction of fundamentalpremises, mandating and maintaining premises that are amongthe earliest concepts of an emerging intelligent life form.

These primitive ideas, instituted and maintained withina culture, result in a population’s support of its controllinginstitutions. These institutions are basically authoritarian,regardless of the category of government or the relative degreeof freedom enjoyed by the people. They are primarily directedtoward maintaining control and the ability to manipulatepopulations along the lines of their own agendas. They dowhat ever is required to maintain and entrench that control.

However, under such control, the species can gain noreasoned movement toward making fundamental corrections.Human kind is following the pattern of the simplest parasite,growing to the limits of its environment and destroying thecarrying capacity of that environment in the process.

Consequently, humanity is now at a cusp, where it mustquickly make the transition from belief, and its attendantignorance, to an acceptance of, and a general orientation to, thecomplete range of existence, the factual reality of a physicalCosmos.

This reorientation will be necessary if the species is tosurvive as intelligent life. This transition will requirerecognizing the true nature of our condition of servitude and

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the nature of our enslaving master, under whose arbitrarymandates we labor.

To continue on our present path insures a destruction ofthe Earth habitat and the demise of most life on this planet,including genus Homo, as an intelligent life form.

This book, for the first time, tells the qualitative story,in broad strokes, from the unprecedented perspective ofrecognizing and providing a preview of the most importantscientific discovery in history, the factual, fundamental natureof existence.

I welcome you to this little adventure with a mostsincere wish that you increasingly gain in insight and reachyour highest potential.

Everett E. Allie

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Chapter 1

THE HUMAN CONDITION

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The Dawn of Man

On the morning of the Dawn of Man Old Yugg stood up, and in his hand,He held a club for all to see, For he was head of his clan, you see.

And cousin Ogg stood up and scratched And broke some wind and belched and yawnedAnd turned to the East to survey the dawn.

"How pink the sky." Said Yugg, "It's red!", As he whacked his kinsman over the head.

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As we begin a new millennium, humanity isexperiencing unparalleled development and rapidity of change.Communication and monetary transactions are now globallyinstantaneous. Global human intercourse is beginning todissolve national borders and the barriers of race and culture.We are on the threshold of moving out into space and are wellon our way to being able to engineer our own form andfunction. We are on the threshold of becoming a trulyintelligent life form.

However, such rapid change is generating potentiallylethal reactions from our controlling institutions of religionand government, and there is a growing disparity withinpopulations. On one side is the great mass of humanity, largely

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controlled and manipulated by belief and propaganda, themainstay of authoritarian social systems.

On the other side, are the self-motivated, moving to thebeat of their own drum, increasingly following reason andfeedback from their own activities and from nature, becomingincreasingly oriented to factual reality. This latter category ofindividuals, in addition to having made possible the wonders ofour sciences and technology, appear to be growing as indicatedby the increasing numbers of serious discussion groups on theinternet. The larger segments of populations, however, remainmired in ancient premises and beliefs, trapped, controlled andmanipulated by institutions, themselves based on primitiveconcepts that have remained essentially stagnant throughouthuman history.

The institutions maintain belief in magic, uncertaintyand encourage insecurity within populations, lending credenceto a non-rational and arbitrary universe where energy andcontrol is imposed from somewhere beyond nature, and whereobedience to authority is a social imperative.

The struggle that will determine the fate of humanity isbetween these two camps, those with an orientation to delusionand belief, as opposed to those with an orientation to factualreality, the real nature of existence and its related principles.Without populations becoming largely oriented to reality,populations will be unable to facilitate rational choices orpress for fundamental system corrections necessary to limitingpopulation growth and maintaining a viable Earth habitat.

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In this book, you will find a preview of the mostimportant work of scientific discovery in human history.However, there is a real danger that this knowledge may never

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be accepted or used. The new discoveries show that ourcontrolling institutions are operating on premises that arediametrically opposed to factual reality and are responsible forthe endless human strife that has plagued humanity throughoutits history. Our social institutions have consistently maintainedbelief and cultural delusions as tools of social control, in theface of all evidence to the contrary. Objective evidencesupports only a rational Cosmos of physical cause and effect.

The new work of discovery is the product of anAmerican engineer and, for the first time in history, displaysthe fundamental architecture of existence, the actual functionsand mechanisms of the primary particles, the fundamentalbuilding blocks of existence. This is the discovery of thenature of matter; what matter is, how it develops and how itworks. This represents the real answer to Einstein'smisconceived "Unified Field Theory". This work, however,is not a theory. It results from an analysis of the compiledexperimental physics data, the numbers as displayed on theNuclide Chart.

The engineer is R. Stewart Hall, now retired fromGeneral Electric Company. He discovered that the answer wasthere all along, hidden within the data. He has developed aunified, universal, alternative system for addressing particlephysics. This system corrects the deficiencies and conceptualerrors in the existing, compounded system of classical quantumphysics.

Hall’s work completes the discovery of fundamentalphysics principles, unifying all physics phenomena, includinggravity, and opening the door for humanity's next great leapforward, the shedding of cultural delusion, ignorance andsuperstition, to become a truly intelligent life form. Forreasons that will soon become clear, this fundamental paradigm

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shift is necessary for the species to survive as an intelligent lifeform.

This book will step beyond culture to look at the humancondition as it is in factual reality, in the absence of culturalpreconceptions and bias, the delusional cognizance carried andinstilled by all human institutions. For the first time, the natureof life and human problems are addressed from the perspectiveof a qualitative understanding of the nature of existence.

The portrayal of humanity and human problems fromthis perspective moves the reader beyond opinion and thepronouncements of any authority, government, religion orother cultural institutions, providing an objective basis forunderstanding the common pathogens of human cultures.

The human condition displayed in the absence ofcultural dogma becomes understandable and provides apotential to dissolve the cultural delusions that hold humanityin a condition of superstition, ignorance and endless conflict,the inevitable results of high levels of delusion, superstition,and its attendant ignorance.

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The human condition is the central focus of this work.We will examine the disparity between individuals and groups,in terms of their respective abilities to make reality-basedcorrections, why some individuals can routinely makecorrections and control their own productive lives while others,individuals, groups, organizations, states and cultures cannot,as they endlessly propagate and broadcast the conceptual seedsof their own dysfunction, generation after generation.

In short, this book contains the essentials that genusHomo will be required to recognize, accept and build upon, if

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the destruction of our Earth habitat, and the degeneration of ourspecies is to be averted.

This, however, is not to imply that this book has all theanswers, nor that we will not have to make modifications andadjustments as new and increasingly accurate knowledgebecomes available. We do, however, now have a new, moreeffective methodology in physics, and a foundation of factualreality to build upon.

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You may find parts of this book unpleasant to read, notbecause of the language or the complexity of concepts. Thewords and concepts are easily understood. The difficulty isthat you are a product of your culture, as are we all. You havebeen carefully taught to believe, to defer to Authority, tomaintain and perpetuate your culture's delusions, beliefs,premises and institutions, right or wrong.

You have been carefully indoctrinated to maintain thecontrolling institutions of your culture in their authoritarianforms, as they operate primarily for their own benefit, too oftenin opposition to the enhancement and positive evolution ofhuman function.

In short, you have been made to believe, embracing theunderlying premises and agendas of your institutions as yourown. Having done so, you will feel an internal imperative todefend these premises and to reject any information that wouldthreaten those beliefs. Just about everything in this book isgoing to threaten those beliefs.

The controlling institutions of our cultures, in theirtraditional forms, are not problem-solving entities. Theseinstitutions, through their functionaries, great and small, useproblems and conflict as a means to growth, manipulation and

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the gaining of power, further entrenching themselves as theyincreasingly generate and compound problems. They buildtheir own support base or electorate, rewarding their supportersas they take over the life of the individual, to the fullest degreethey are allowed.

In repeating destructive cycles, our history depictscontrolling institutions gaining in power and domain until theycrumble from their own corruption and dysfunction, or areoverthrown, only to have the same problematic systemsdevelop anew. These systems are fundamentally dysfunctionalbecause they operate on premises that do not reflect factualreality. They operate in ignorance of the natural drives andsystems of human beings and the Cosmos, denying the realnature of problems and the nature of the human animal. Theyoperate on preconceived and primitive beliefs instead ofmoving to understand, use and supplement factual reality, thefactual and inviolable functions of nature and human drives.

Present human social controls are diametricallyopposed to natural motive and control systems. They are basedon the authoritarian principle, the "God" model of existence,imposing control upon the individual and private organizations,rather than allowing and nurturing effective internal controls,working with natural systems, energies and processes withinpopulations.

Present controlling systems are primarily oriented totheir own processes and structures, not to the best interests ofthe individual, the species or the carrying capacity of planetEarth. This constitutes a class of problems that does notemerge until the advent of intelligent life, with delusionbecoming instituted within cultures. The natural results ofdistorted perception, conception, reasoning and resultantmisdirection, have led to the social chaos we see today.

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Regardless of the form of the controlling institution,religious, governmental, educational, etc., it will grow andfurther entrench itself to the limits allowed, becomingdecreasingly effective in the process. Some forms oforganization can grow faster than others, but the principle ofgrowth and development is universal, not just in terms of socialsystems that gain control over a people, but in every aspect ofexistence, down to the smallest activity centers of the primaryparticles. Growth of any system is natural, but sustainabilityof intelligent life requires predominately rational and realityoriented populations. Human populations have some catchingup to do, but the necessary knowledge is now available.THEORIGIN OF SOCIAL DYSFUNCTION addresses the mostdifficult and carefully evaded subject areas confrontinghumanity. However, these are subjects that humanity isincreasingly compelled to face, simply because present systemsresult in problems that threaten every society and can no longerbe ignored. Cultural delusion constitutes the most seriousthreat to humanity and life on this planet.

The development of intelligent life introduces a factornot shared by lower life forms, the instituting of falsehoods.Where a lower life form misinterprets its environment, such asa fly mistaking a praying mantis for a twig, the fly gets eaten.The effect is immediate and the fly has no institution totransmit and perpetuate the misconception.

Human life, on the other hand, being able toconceptualize and reason, inevitably creates its early socialsystems based largely on delusion. Early Homo Sapiens as anemerging intelligent life form, came to have far more questionsthan for which it had valid answers. The result is that humancultures all carry high levels of delusion where humanimagination has compensated for an absence of factualknowledge. The falsehoods become institutionalized within

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cultures and are carried forth by the societies, down throughthe ages, cultural pathogens, generating a disease of diversemanifestations.

These falsehoods are defended vigorously by theindividual and by cultural institutions. This is natural andinevitable. The result is, however, that in an age of hightechnological knowledge, our institutions work to maintaincultural beliefs that remain essentially those of savages. Notreflecting reality, essentially believing in magic and anultimate, omnipotent power, these beliefs erect a nearlyimpregnable barrier to accepting the reciprocal realities andcarry with them a devastating pathology of ignorance. Beliefsdestroy human effectiveness, generating misdirection,problems and conflict.

Our institutions, including academia, and oureducational institutions, accommodate and perpetuate thesedelusions and are the main reason that such delusion persists aspopular belief. The mass media supports and serves ourinstitutions, and is the primary means of disseminatingpropaganda. Our systems of education support and reflect ourcontrolling institutions. All institutional pressure is toward themaintenance of existing cultural delusion. As the vectors ofbelief, our institutions cannot correct themselves nor supportcorrection. The only effective pressure to do so must comefrom the people, issuing from the cognizance of individuals.

Correction has to begin with the individual, discoveringand recognizing the fallacies, accepting the reciprocal realities.At this time in history there is still little information in popularcirculation about the real problem, the mechanisms,psychological and culturally systemic, that maintain thedelusions and generate the dysfunction. People are beginningto recognize that there is something terribly wrong with presentpremises and systems, but they have not been given the

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intellectual tools to understand and make corrections, to dealwith their own delusions.

Enhanced communication increasingly allows peopleto see the activities and mind set of their leaders and of theirinstitutions. This helps, but is only marginally instructive.Recognizing something wrong does not necessarily provideinsight into the problem. The realities reciprocal to thedelusions need to be explained and, just as important, thefundamental delusions need to be exposed for what they are, aswell as the mechanisms they use to manipulate the public.

Public awareness of institutional misconduct andoppression is growing in every quarter, reducing theeffectiveness of propaganda as a means of social control. While the majority within any culture still cling to the populardelusions, there also appears to be a growing demand, withinthe more open societies, for truth on the part of their leadersand for straight reporting by the media. There also appears tobe increasing recognition of the unpopular realities andimplications of these realities.

At no time in history have changes in human thoughtand systems moved as rapidly as they do today. At the heartof it all is, not only the press of burgeoning problems, butenhanced communication systems and increasing access ofinformation by the public, as well as cultural drift fromincreased international function. Today, anyone can sit downat a computer, log on to an Internet server, and access justabout as much information as is available to most governmentofficials. A highly active discussion group can drawparticipants from virtually every culture and walks of life.

Perhaps the greatest impetus for change, however,comes from the exponential growth of problems. There isincreasing popular awareness of the vital necessity to stoptreating symptoms and to address the underlying pathologies,

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even if there is little grasp of what those pathogens might be.There is increased awareness that our problems threaten, notjust human societies and genus Homo, but are quickly reducingthe Earth's capacity to support life.

There is increased recognition that our traditionalconcepts and approaches are not working. However, thevarious peoples have little sense of the changes that must bemade, nor do they want to make changes. The level of populardelusion is too high.

To address the fundamental pathogens, humanity willbe required to turn away from the traditional concepts anapproaches of our institutions. Human societies will berequired to recognize, accept and work within the unfoldingrealities of factual existence. The new knowledge makes evenour most respected institutions suspect. Nothing should gounquestioned. This fundamental change in direction is fraught withanguish, as old ideas die hard. However, it is a process that isalready under way and gathering momentum. This basicchange in direction constitutes a process of discovery in whichyou, as an individual, become the central and vital player.

The survival of most life on this planet now dependsupon how the human species conducts itself in terms ofindividual determination. Ultimately, the direction this speciestakes becomes an averaged, or algebraic summation, of thementality of individuals.

Survival, the ability to correct behavior patterns withinchanging environments, require marked changes in ourthinking, our systems and the premises upon which we operate.We need information which has largely been denied us,information that has the ability to counter the propaganda anddysfunctional mandates of our institutions.