What can you do? Most of life is really one form of scam or another.
The biggest scams are being uncovered as scientists peel away the
layers of reality to reveal that nothing is really as firm as we
believe them to be. A piece of wood may look solid enough so that if
one were to be hit in the head with it, some form of damage would be
inflicted on skin of the head if not fracturing the skull itself. On
the sub-atomic level, the atoms that comprise that piece of wood have
another kind of reality.
An atom is composed of a nucleus and orbiting electrons. The nucleus
and the electrons never meet such that it might as well be infinite
space that separates them This ghostlike quality of an atom is a far
cry from the solid manifestation of a bunch of atoms that comprise a
piece of wood that is capable of inflicting great damage to a head or a
portion of the human body that comes in contact with it as when a
wooden bat is swung to strike a man. A neutrino on the other hand, is a
particle so tiny that it would pass through most anything as though
nothing exists except itself
One of the biggest scams in human history is the belief that the world
is flat. Sailors and mariners would be afraid to stray from charted
waters for fear of falling off the edge of the world. Ancient maps
would say, "here be dragons" to denote parts of the world which people
know nothing about.
Christopher Columbus in his quest to find treasures for his king by
charting a route to the fabled land of India mistakenly thought that
the Indies was India hence the name and the indelible appellation of
native Americans as Indians.The fiction of Heven and Hell is one of the
biggest scams perpetrated on gullible Christians who swallow hook line
and sinker anything professed by Church Fathers and Evangelists who
know how to write and orate better than to use their reason.
Galileo Galilei was a genius who fell victim to the ignorance of the
Church Fathers who found his notion of the Heliocentric System contrary
to the Religious belief that the sun revolved around the earth. He
spent his life in house arrest so to speak unable to share his wisdom
and knowledge for the good of humanity simply because his theory
challenged popular Christian belief.
Even today, the general population is held captive by the ignorance of
so-called leaders who foist their own brand of authoritarianism in the
name of Democracy and freedom and economic progress. Proponents of
terrorism also promote the fiction of a holy war on clueless
adolescents and young people who feel dispossessed and hopelesss enough
to end their own lives along with their intended victims by a tragic
act of self-annihilation.
Life is a scam and scams are not limited to economic scams perpetrated
in the Internet by unscrupulous marketers who prey on the naive desire
of people to make money online. Every day there is a new scam being
concocted by people and every day there are people falling victim to
these scams. The Romans in their legalistic wisdom knew that scams were
difficult to prevent so they merely decreed: Caveat emptor. Let the
buyer beware.
