If historically there is, as Thomas Carlyle says, an evolutionary process where the false repeatedly perishes, one must conclude that society is bound to erect and overthrow lies. Otherwise we must ask: why does something equally false always overlap with the overthrown falsehood? Or even: how many more millennia will it take for mankind to get rid of this evil cycle? On a collective level, any outline of a solution seems impossible.
Society Has Become Radically More Cynical
With the democratization of the West, the advent of the press, and especially marketing, society has become radically more cynical and its means of oppression even more perverse. The State has become stronger than ever and has expanded its methods of social control, assuming the position of God and waging war against the manifestation of the individual, reducing him to nothing and taxing him as a criminal if he opposes its tyrannical and immoral impositions. Censorship has become prior, condemnation veiled, defense mechanisms have been annulled by mass psychology—all this operated by an authority based on a false and hypocritical foundation that only grows. Cynicism and lies have never been used so effectively as instruments of domination and power.
The Ever Corrupting and Oppressive Effects of Group Psychology
Analyzing the ever corrupting and oppressive effects of group psychology, one can conclude that honor requires solitude—that is, a flat refusal to join any collectivity. Collective thinking is detestable, the collective imposition on the individual infamous. But the path is a thankless one: there is always a price to pay. Society, with its shameful history of persecuting solitary rebels, denying them the possibility of refusal, always subjecting them to its vile tyranny, cannot be better defined than as the spreading manifestation of evil. It would not surprise to discover that those who rule this world put dead people to wake up inside the coffin.
What Is Universal in the Human Being
What is universal in the human being is his vain, hypocritical and greedy manifestations. This today as yesterday, and yesterday as tomorrow. There would be exceptions if the human being were not thrown, as a rule, into situations of pressure and risk, when he is forced to act by the instinct maliciously developed over the centuries and capable of freeing him from more severe discomfort. The world does not allow him peace: it hunts him and demands a reaction. And the reaction, always, manifests itself in vanity, hypocrisy and greed—the defense mechanism that corrupts souls and becomes vice. So it would be good that behavioral psychology uses moralistic philosophy as dogma: however, doing so would invariably lead the student into depression.