Reality exists independent of belief.  It doesn’t bend to the will of politicians, nor does it change by decree.  Yet, the modern world operates on the premise that reality is subjective, that it can be shaped by rhetoric, legislation, or force.  This is the fundamental delusion of our age.

All human action stems from an understanding—correct or incorrect—of cause and effect.  To act is to assume a relationship between means and ends.  When falsehoods are institutionalized, when men are taught that reality conforms to desire, they no longer act rationally.  They are led by illusions, and their actions become destructive.

The destruction is not accidental.  Ideas are transmitted with intent.  Just as useful knowledge is passed down to build civilization, errors and deceits are spread to unravel it.  The greatest deception of all is that truth is subjective, that facts are malleable, that the individual’s mind is powerless to grasp reality without the guidance of self-appointed intellectuals and rulers.  This lie is the foundation of all tyranny.

The ruling class doesn’t seek truth.  It seeks control.  The state and its lackeys in media and academia don’t spread ideas that liberate.  They promote ideas that person with disabilities.  The ideal citizen, in their eyes, is not a thinker but a subject.  They train you to doubt your own reason while accepting their proclamations without question.  They teach you to mistake obedience for virtue, passivity for wisdom.

We’re in the final stage of this campaign against reality.  People no longer trust their own senses, their own logic.  They believe what they are told, even when it contradicts what they see.  They are taught that words can redefine nature, that economic laws are political choices, that morality is whatever authority declares it to be.

Reality is immune to propaganda.  No matter how many times a lie is repeated, it will never become true.  No matter how many institutions enforce delusions, reality remains.  Those who grasp this, those who refuse to submit, are the last line of defense against the final descent into madness.

Truth is the enemy of power.  To think clearly is to be at war with the state.  The path forward is not compliance but resistance—resistance through thought, through speech, through action.  Reality will not be denied forever.  The only question is whether men will wake up before it reasserts itself with force.

Reference

Ludwig von Mises; Human Action