LIVING ON LIES
If The Foremost Of All Forces
That Drive The World Is Falsehoods
Then The Effectiveness Of Accurate Information
As An Influence On Our Opinions
Is Likely To Be Weakened
By Our Obsessive Attachment
To The Prejudices We Prefer

Both The Irrational Individuals
And The Perceptive Persons
Have Been Known To Neglect
The New Knowledge They Need
If They Are Convinced
That This Knowledge Interferes
With Their Special Interests
Or Challenges Their Long Held Convictions

Amputated Fragments Of Ideas
Errors Based On Dogmatic Assertions
And Trivial Versions Of Truths
Are Much More Important To People
Than Rational Statements Of Savants
That Are Based On Scholarly Studies

To Verify Their Views
And To Promote Their Long Held Prejudices
The Most Opinionated Observers
Will Employ Their Sharpest Wit
To Save Their Irrational Self

To Avoid Logical Conclusions
When They Are Emotionally Offensive
To Our Notion Of Knowledge
We Rely On Verbal Acrobatics
To Tell Us What To Think

Whenever We Are Intellectually Exposed
To The Demands Of Imperial Data
That Threatens Our Sacred Theories
We Try To Cover Up The Cracks
In Our Cherished Concepts
With Thick Layers Of Sticky Lies

To Preserve The Illogic Of Our Own Illusions
On The Correctness Of Our Contentions
We Close Our Mental Ears
Before They Become Infected
With The Integrity Of Objective Facts