Sometimes in the early hours of the morning I wake and lie in bed letting my mind wander as it will and it takes me to places I wish I could recall more precisely.

For example:

We are told that in the very ancient times humans thought the earth was flat. How this was determined I don’t know but I wondered about those early folk, and their views of what was truth.  Waking up in the morning, hunting for food, surviving, breeding and sleeping; a simple life so why not a flat earth if they ever thought about it.  Did they think?  Who knows – maybe instinct was the controlling factor in life back then, and maybe that instinct is all we have left of them.

I imagined some intrepid souls wandering towards the edge of their flat earth and being alarmed as mountains seemed to rise from the edge and block their way, and even more alarming getting to water that came at them from the edge! How terrifying to see water coming up seemingly from nowhere over the edge and rushing towards them in waves.  Not only that, but it didn’t taste right.

At some point it was realized that the earth was not flat and that the sun dd not travel around the earth, but until then the earth was flat and that was a fact!

Of course, today we know better than they did but our truths/facts are still just as invalid as theirs were back then.

Over the years humans developed the concept of logic which may have come from serious thought – or frivolous for the matter too – and that logic led to questioning the facts offered by the powers that were and still are.  This has manifested itself over the centuries by violent suppression in the form of religious wars which still go on today, by the desire to have what others have, by the need for power and control and by simple greed. That instinct that we inherited from the ancients let us know when something isn’t right but we tend to just shrug it off and ignore it.  Those of us who do pay attention are outcasts.

I suspect that in ancient times we would have been considered wizards or witches and the stake was all we deserved. Today the stake isn’t popular but vilification and deprivation of livelihood is.

Today truth, fact and fiction are so muddled up that logic and instinct are all we have left, and that leads to trouble.

We are fed nonsense by corporate media, and any contrary narrative is “fake” or conspiracy when in “fact” (oops) the opposite may well be – and often is – the “truth”.

Take science for example.  Science is ideas developed by clever people and accepted until disproved. There is never an end to questioning science as new discoveries are constantly being made.  Science is no more a “fact” than the moon is made out of cheese, and being made to pay attention to something on the basis that it is science is absurd because tomorrow it will likely be proven wrong.

We spend millions educating people and then when they use that education to question supposed “facts” we class them as conspiracy nuts.  I say we because we are responsible for allowing our governments to do this.

On that subject there is a mythology out there that democracy is alive and well in the “west”.  Where exactly actually escapes me, but it appears that there is a new idea of democracy coming into being in the form of a multi polar world where all countries will have a say in how they survive and treat each other. No top dog making up the rules and causing wars wherever and whenever it wants but just countries getting along and helping each other out when that help is needed.

 Is that a truth, fact, fiction or wish?

Logically it would be a huge improvement and my instinct tells me that it should happen sooner than later.

Jeremy