We judge many issues. However, there are some issues that aren’t judged and left to false prophets.  You may research a TV, fridge, or any good before you buy, but your physical well being is left to pseudo-experts.  Thinking has been replaced by feeling.  Political correctness—which has nothing to do with manners—has prevented people from being honest.  Is it nicer to stop someone from heading down the wrong path or not letting them know they are heading towards a cliff?

It is dangerous to remain ignorant.  One can easily be deceived by false prophets.  If you remain ignorant, you may be reluctant to point out the errors of these false prophets.  This reluctance may be driven by fear of being called names, demonize your ideas (they won’t be refuted), maybe something else.  Honesty is needed now more than ever.  It seems like they might understand, but they don’t, they are True Believers.  They will lead you astray.

The meaning of tolerance has changed.  Tolerance is actually accepting views different from your own.  Today it means, only allowing the ideas of these false prophets, however wrong they may be.  The false prophet will try to appear tolerant, but they are far from it.  This shift in definition is an attributing factor to the decline of civilization.  The false prophets that appear tolerant, their image is more important than substance.

The false prophets must fight to have their ideas accepted.  They don’t have truth on their side so they must control the dissemination of ideas.  These ideas could never sustain an intellectual battle which is why everything but the ideas are attacked.  Many today do not want to hear the truth.  They are looking for the comfortable feelings the false prophet is providing.  These ideas are damaging civilization, the masses, even those that don’t subscribe to these ideas.

The easiest way to detect a false prophet is to ask pointed questions.  Questions that are easy to answer.  For example: How does an increase in paper tickets make a society richer?  If that can work, why is there poverty in the world?  These false prophets can’t answer this.  Don’t allow them to change the subject or try to confuse you with details.  Just continue with the childlike questions and repeat them after they change the subject.

Reference

Jerry Haughton; The Mind Benders